Board 8 > Gauntlet Crew Ranks 90s Horror Films - Do you like ranking scary movies?

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Snake5555555555
06/24/19 12:17:39 PM
#51:


Charon - Any sense of fright was squeezed out of this film long ago. Definitely a film that has aged extremely poorly, Anaconda's graphics and story, but especially those effects, just don't hold up very well. The part where the snake consumed one of the characters and you can see his form within it during a badly edited shot as the snake swims by is cause for raucous laughter. Then you've got the famed backwards waterfall scene that you won't unsee if you know it's there. The acting is good or passable, outside of Ice Cube. I'm not sure whose idea this was but I feel like when it happened and he asked was his character was, the director was just like, "Hey man, I love your music. I really liked Friday. Can you do that guy?" and that was it. It felt really out of place to me. The 90's were guilty of using black characters as comic relief a ton here, and I'll probably note it every time it happens because it's kinda shameful and should be put through the ringer.

Scarlet - My anaconda dont
My anaconda dont
My anaconda dont hunt bums after its blown up some.
Rating: 13/100


Snake - Why I chose It - Anaconda is the face of 90s monster movies, becoming a huge box office success and spawning a franchise consisting of 4 sequels.

My Thoughts - Though it may get some favorable snake points from me, Anaconda is incredibly dated from its effects to its script to its cliche cast of characters. Jon Voight provides a bit of fun, but all of the deaths just look some like thick green pipe cleaner faffing about until a character eventually bites the dust.

JONA - My Anaconda don't

Jon Voight can be fun at times, but this just ended up being mostly forgettable for me

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GenesisSaga
06/24/19 12:20:11 PM
#52:


I'm sorry, HOW many sequels???!
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Snake5555555555
06/24/19 12:25:18 PM
#53:


One of them is a crossover with the Lake Placid series (the first film in that series almost was put on this list).
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swordz9
06/24/19 12:25:54 PM
#54:


Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid is the best Anaconda movie. One of the sequels even has Hasselhoff in it
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Snake5555555555
06/24/19 12:32:08 PM
#55:


Outlier

Genny - 32
Inviso - 26
KBM - 17
Karo - 16
Johnbobb - 13
Charon - 11
JONA - 5
Scarlet - 3
Snake - 2

Vis squeezesssss a little pressure on the top spot but Genny holds strong. Ssssscarlet and Sssssnake are finally on the board with this ranking too.
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Johnbobb
06/24/19 12:39:45 PM
#56:


For a rough estimation of my ranks:

1-5 so fucking good
6-11 excellent
12-16 pretty great
17-25 good but flawed
24-34 were mostly forgettable
35-36 I disliked
37-40 I hated

so at 26 I think for me Jon Voight nudged Anaconda to the top of the forgettable pile
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PrinceKaro
06/24/19 12:51:21 PM
#57:


1-5 good movies
6-13 competently made films
14-19 generally have at least one severe flaw
20-28 bad movies
29-35 please god make it stop
36-39 *dry heaving noises*
40 blasphemous abomination
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Snake5555555555
06/24/19 12:52:04 PM
#58:


Tune in later tonight, where two more last place films get eliminated!
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GenesisSaga
06/24/19 12:52:36 PM
#59:


I'm in a weird place where my #40 is competently made, but I still loathe it for a multitude of reasons.
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Espeon
06/24/19 12:55:32 PM
#60:


GenesisSaga posted...
I'm in a weird place where my #40 is competently made, but I still loathe it for a multitude of reasons.


Same. Though I cant even remember what my 39 is.
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Snake5555555555
06/24/19 12:55:53 PM
#61:


1-9 - Some of my favorite movies ever
10-15 - Excellent films
16-22 - Mostly great with some flaws
23-27 - Good films but even more noticeable flaws
28-35 - Bad movies with some things to like
36-39 - I don't want to watch these again
40 - Burn it in hell
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scarletspeed7
06/24/19 1:06:18 PM
#62:


1-2 - Great movies.
3-5 - Pretty great movies.
6-10 - Good movies.
11-18 - Average movies.
19-34 - Bad movies.
35-40 - Absolutely awful movies.
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GenesisSaga
06/24/19 1:43:37 PM
#63:


As cringeworthy as it was I feel like Demonic Toys shouldn't have been dead last. The performances by the humans are not good, but as I said the actual toys are pretty cool. Baby Oopsy Daisy should've netted it 39th at least alone. I can't be the only one who thought this way! My one gripe is that the movie introduces a character that had been surviving on her own by crawling around in vents for no reason other than to have one more victim for the toys to kill off. That doesn't really make any sense, but it adds to the humor of it all I guess.

On the other hand without DT landing there Leprechaun would've been 40th and that really REALLY didn't deserve last. Oh well, carry on I guess.
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StifledSilence
06/24/19 1:43:42 PM
#64:


I didnt ssssee thissss one, but it ssssounds like it might be good for a laugh.
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StifledSilence
06/24/19 1:44:54 PM
#65:


Johnbobb posted...
StifledSilence posted...
Im kind of interested in checking out a few of the weird sequels. Like Leprechaun in the Hood or Leprechaun in Space.

literally the only thing you need to see

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzWlhLSitJ8" data-time="


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Lopen
06/24/19 1:52:34 PM
#66:


I kinda don't hate these bottom few movies that are being ranked. Leprechaun and Anaconda are dumb but watchable for me. Nothing I'd ever make a point to watch or anything but if they're on SyFy and I want a distraction to half pay attention to? Why not. Haven't seen the demonic toys though.

Not sure if that means I'm more forgiving of dumb movies than I should be or this list is overall better than the usual gauntlet fare. Looking at the list I'm thinking it's the latter. Not a lot of movies on there I'm thinking are obviously worse.
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Vengeful_KBM
06/24/19 2:58:44 PM
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1-3 - Among my favorite movies
4-15 - Great
16-22 - Good
23-26 - Had their moments
27-30 - Meh
31-36 - Bad
37-40 - Awful
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Vengeful_KBM
06/24/19 3:01:24 PM
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(yes I did just edit that post like six times what of it)
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Johnbobb
06/24/19 3:44:59 PM
#69:


GenesisSaga posted...
As cringeworthy as it was I feel like Demonic Toys shouldn't have been dead last. The performances by the humans are not good, but as I said the actual toys are pretty cool. Baby Oopsy Daisy should've netted it 39th at least alone. I can't be the only one who thought this way! My one gripe is that the movie introduces a character that had been surviving on her own by crawling around in vents for no reason other than to have one more victim for the toys to kill off. That doesn't really make any sense, but it adds to the humor of it all I guess.

Baby Oopsy Daisy was one of the worst things about the movie

it wasn't funny and was so actively terrible that it was hard to watch
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v_charon
06/24/19 8:02:06 PM
#70:


I'm glad most everyone loved Jon Voight at least.
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WickIebee
06/24/19 8:16:07 PM
#71:


Anaconda is one of like... 3 movies I've watched from this list. It was a very poorly done snake. I barely remember anything else though.
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scarletspeed7
06/24/19 8:20:47 PM
#72:


I'm surprised we didn't say more about Snake5555555555 in our write-ups. I thought he gave a decent performance here.
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Johnbobb
06/24/19 8:21:44 PM
#73:


tbh I thought Snake5555555555 came off as pretty stiff and unbelievable
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v_charon
06/24/19 8:42:22 PM
#74:


Everyone else did this, so I will now:

1-7: Great films.
8-16: Good films.
17-23: Decent films.
24-32: Eh films.
33-40: Films I legitimately dislike.
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Snake5555555555
06/24/19 10:00:18 PM
#75:


37. The Blair Witch Project

Charon - 20
Inviso - 21
Johnbobb - 21
Snake - 27
JONA - 34
KBM - 35
Scarlet - 36
Genny - 40
Karo - 40

Charon - The grandfather of a genre, for better or worse, The Blair Witch Project excels at creating a tense atmosphere, realistic portrayals of confusion and hopelessness, even if there's never any grand payoff at the end. Before rewatching this film, I had a low opinion of it and found footage style horror films in general. This was the one that really popularized the subgenre and would go on to spawn multiple copiers in movies and even video gaming. While yes, the film really pales in comparison to others in terms of "scary monsters", it does in my opinion show the most realistic portrayal of a real-life scenario of being lost in the woods. The actors here are very believable and I found their interactions with one another pretty great as the film continued. It may be confusing, as to what the witch herself even is, but I think the atmosphere and mood are enough to make this one a memorable experience.

Inviso - Of all the movies on this list, I feel like Blair Witch has probably had the greatest cultural impact, both in terms of its influence on the horror genre overall, and its general use in pop culture (Mark Burnett has cited Blair Witch as one of the inspirations behind Survivor.) And for what it is, Blair Witch is acceptable. We watched several found footage movies on the last list, and they all struggled with pacing issues and just general lameness. Blair Witch starts out similarly, with far too much of its short runtime dedicated to bland scenes of traipsing through the woods. Admittedly, the woods arent a great setting, because theres only so much you can do therebut once spooky stuff starts going down, the film picks up. The general devolution of the cast as they succumb to sleep deprivation and hunger adds a raw element to their respective performances, BUT I do wish the film was a little less hokey in some of its scenes. Thats the major flaw is that this is almost TOO realistic, and most peoples home movies arent amazing. So yeah, decent, but not amazing.

Johnbobb - Basically the movie that sparked the found footage genre that we know today. Not sure if that's a good thing or not (Chronicle and Cloverfield are good at least) but there's no denying the influence this movie had on literally the smallest possible budget. I'm not gonna say it's incredible, because it isn't. It's alright. But it is creepy, and you can buy the panic in the actors, so it's hard to not at the very least admire what they were able to do with what they had. (Also I'm gonna go ahead and acknowledge that this isn't even remotely a unique take, but literally everything that can be said about this movie has been said already.)
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Snake5555555555
06/24/19 10:00:30 PM
#76:


Snake - Why I Chose It - Perhaps the single most influential film on this list, Blair Witch Project is one of the most successful indie films of all time and inspired countless other found-footage films. Maybe even more important was Blair Witch's legendary viral marketing campaign, which was the first to really use and capitalize on the internet to spread buzz and word-of-mouth, fooling many audience members into thinking the actors were actually missing and the events were real. Blair Witch spawned two quasi-sequels, as well as an extended universe of video games that spun-off the BloodRayne series of all things.

My Thoughts - I loved this movie back when I first watched it, but a recent re-watch brought it down for me quite a bit. I'm an appreciator of atmospheric tension and build-up, and I still think there are certain points in the film where Blair Witch is a slow-burn masterpiece. However, I think in their efforts to make this film as realistic as possible, there are moments especially early on which are not conductive to the experience of watching a film. They feel like watching someone's boring vacation footage instead of a movie. The purpose of this is not lost on me, but at the same time, it doesn't really work as well as a horror movie because of it. With the exception of Heather Donahue, I don't think the acting is particularly convincing as people say it is either. I never really liked the ending of the film either, which feels particularly anti-climatic. I still think there's some good here, and I think many found-footage films could learn a thing or two from it. It's an enigmatic film that has really transcended itself over the years in my opinion, being more interesting to read about than to actually watch.

JONA - While there is some good acting and interesting lore, the majority of the movie is our main characters just being lost and thats just not entertaining.

KBM - I have never really understood the appeal of The Blair Witch Project, or really even found-footage movies in general for the most part. If you asked me to list off the least eventful movies I've ever seen, this would spring immediately to mind. I suppose there was a novelty to the whole improvisational shaky-cam horror thing in 1999 (especially with the marketing campaign that SOMEHOW managed to fool some people into thinking this was actual documentary footage), but watching 100 minutes of people running through the woods doing nothing really tests my patience.

Scarlet - I have seen better filmed Wal-Mart security footage with more intriguing plots than this. In this universe, there has never been a bigger overreaction from human beings towards stick figures and leaves. Perhaps the singularly least realistic film Ive ever seen, which is pretty impressive for a movie that claims to be found footage. It should have been left lost. Forever.
Rating: 13/100


Genny - I'll give the Blair Witch Project this: it may not have started the found footage genre of horror but it certainly popularized it. That's not actually a positive remark. I can't forgive this for being 90% buildup no matter how hard I try. 4/10
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Snake5555555555
06/24/19 10:01:24 PM
#77:


Karo - A documentary film crew decides to do a piece on a spooky local legend, and while you might think that you'd eventually get some cool supernatural shit, all you really end up with is an hour and a half of watching lame home movies of these three dumbasses yelling at each other. It almost seems if they are heading towards some big scary payoff but the camera just drops on the ground and the film abruptly ends. Welp, that was a waste of time. The cinematography is shaky, out of focus, and shot either too close up, too far away, or literally just a blank black screen. The audio volume fluctuates wildly between barely audible mumbling and JOSSSSSHH!!! All this featuring cartoonish and unbelievable characters who are acted more ineptly than Survivor contestants. Remember this is all intentional. They are deliberately making their movie bad and unprofessional while critics with their heads rammed up their own asses compliment them on their artistic vision. If you want to see inept handcam video footage, that is what fucking youtube is for, keep that shit out of theaters. We arent gonna hang some 6-year-old's stick figure drawing in the goddamn Louvre for christsakes. An utterly worthless 'movie' that is a disgrace to the art of filmmaking, and everyone involved should be abandoned in the deep woods until they are forced to eat their own feces to survive.
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Johnbobb
06/24/19 10:02:02 PM
#78:


woah seriously? That's definitely not one I thought would get bottom 5
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Snake5555555555
06/24/19 10:12:52 PM
#79:


It's one I figured would be divisive going in, however I did expect it to get a higher ranking just due to its influence. No matter where you go you always get people who really like this film or those who loathe it.
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Snake5555555555
06/24/19 10:18:18 PM
#80:


Outlier

Inviso - 42
Genny - 35
Johnbobb - 29
Charon - 28
KBM - 19
Karo - 19
Snake - 12
JONA - 8
Scarlet - 4

Vis passes Genny, while John and Charon take their biggest jumps so far. Scarlet meanwhile holds steady with only a small increase.
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GenesisSaga
06/24/19 10:21:36 PM
#81:


Just for the record "all build up with no pay off" is exactly what charon faults It Comes at Night for despite that being a much better movie. I fault the marketing personally, but WHO NEEDS LOGIC ANYWAY!?
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v_charon
06/24/19 10:22:21 PM
#82:


Yeah I feel the film's legacy is something to respect. Like I said, it has some flaws but I think for it's time, it offered up something that was unique and fresh.
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v_charon
06/24/19 10:24:22 PM
#83:


GenesisSaga posted...
Just for the record "all build up with no pay off" is exactly what charon faults It Comes at Night for despite that being a much better movie. I fault the marketing personally, but WHO NEEDS LOGIC ANYWAY!?


There wasn't anything interesting about that movie though. Not even a monster you don't get to see, at least TBW wasn't some fungal outbreak or whatever.
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Snake5555555555
06/24/19 10:29:21 PM
#84:


One of my favorite factoids about the Blair Witch Project is that the titular witch was actually supposed to be in the movie, Heather just missed recording it due to her panicked state.

Blair Witch was definitely original for its time. Cannibal Holocaust invented the genre and the background around that film is very similar to Blair. After that though you have a few arguable entries like Man Bites Dog (incredible film btw) and Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County which are really presented as more mockumentaries than found footage. The Last Broadcast is the one most cited and is the closet to the Blair Witch style found footage genre, but Blair Witch was in development before it.
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Lopen
06/24/19 10:33:08 PM
#85:


Hey my actual (probably-- obviously haven't seen every movie on this list) #40 dropped cool.

Impressive Gen gives #40 a 4/10. Assuming those numbers are accurate anyway, which who knows.
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Johnbobb
06/24/19 10:36:43 PM
#86:


Cannibal Holocaust is probably the one movie I refuse to ever watch again
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Snake5555555555
06/24/19 10:40:58 PM
#87:


That and A Serbian Film and Salo.
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StifledSilence
06/24/19 10:57:11 PM
#88:


I would have probably put Blair Witch in last place. Good job, crew.
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Johnbobb
06/24/19 11:11:30 PM
#89:


Snake5555555555 posted...
That and A Serbian Film and Salo.

haven't seen Salo yet

A Serbian Film I've already seen twice and would probably watch again for that sick as hell soundtrack. It also contains the only movie seen to ever make me feel physically sick though
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Snake5555555555
06/24/19 11:26:36 PM
#90:


Okay you definitely got me there with the soundtrack.
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Snake5555555555
06/25/19 12:38:35 PM
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36. Arachnophobia

KBM - 16
Genny - 22
Charon - 24
Karo - 24
Johnbobb - 34
JONA - 35
Scarlet - 37
Snake - 37
Inviso - 40

KBM - This one surprised me quite a bit. I wasn't expecting to have so much fun with a giant creature feature; I particularly wasn't expecting to have so much fun with a movie all about killer spiders. I'm personally not super arachnophobic, but I can't say I'm a big fan of spiders either but what really elevated this movie was its brilliant sense of humor, and extremely charismatic lead performance from Jeff Daniels. Managing to make you squirm without QUITE crossing a line of grossness, it even manages to have a bit of a satirical bent to it, taking the mickey out of American small-town culture without feeling too mean or cynical about it. John Goodman also gives a great, hilarious supporting turn as the town's crazy exterminator. It's certainly not one that will win over any extreme arachnophobes, but if you can stand watching a movie with spiders that doesn't go too over-the-top with its scares, this is a good, fun time, with some strong practical effects that gel surprisingly well with the actual footage of spiders.

Genny - I do not have arachnophobia. Spiders are awesome though like most people I don't like when they're crawling on me. Even though it's campy as hell this movie does a pretty great job at conveying the irrational fear that someone with this affliction undergoes in the presence of these arachnids. I could really do without Exterminator Meatloaf and that whole scene in the basement- sorry- the WINE CELLAR though. The comedy stylings presented here are just too much. 7.2/10

Charon - A blend of silliness and the very real fear of spiders, this film tackles the monster movie in a more eloquent way than other over-the-top heavy handers. As one of the monster films on this list, I was surprised to see that there was no humanoid spider or gargantuan spider of unreal proportions to appear. I appreciate that they kept some element of realism intact as I feel it enhanced my ability to become more immersed in the universe. That said, this film still never takes itself that seriously. Some of the deaths here are played up as humorous and of course, you can't forget John Goodman stomping around as an exterminator with a god complex. Still I feel it was well made, and played things straight enough not to make me question the horror elements of the film.

Karo - A group of scientists discover a new species of spider in the unexplored rainforest. This arachnid looks exactly like a tarantula, except it is not its an evil death spider from hell that has venom that can kill in seconds. One of these eight legged terrors gets shipped to the U.S. in a coffin because apparently nobody thought quarantining a dead body that died of unknown causes in a third world country was a good idea. It then mates with a normal spider which is totally how spiders work maybe and baby spiders overrun the countryside and bite everyone. The whole thing is incredibly stupid, and the ridiculous climactic scene where you have hundreds of spiders crawling out of the fucking plumbing and every other crevice is even stupider. It is nothing more than idiotic horror shlock.

Johnbobb - Honestly, kind of boring. It picks up a bit in the second half, but from there, it just sort of goes from boring to "watch a bunch of people scream and flail around from spiders." Which, sure, that's kind of what I expected given the title, but I was really hoping this movie would have more of its own identity. But it just... doesn't. I've heard Arachnophobia talked up plenty before too, but I'm not sure where the hype is coming from.
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Snake5555555555
06/25/19 12:38:48 PM
#92:


JONA - Theres some decent comedy in here, but the movie is just a slog to watch through with the film being almost two hours long. Unfortunately, the spiders just did nothing for me.

Scarlet - Unlike some of the cheesy movies I ranked higher on this list, Arachnophobia is content to be a title-only project. Ive got an idea for a project, Frank. Oh yeah, what is it? I call it Arachnophobia. So a spider horror film? Whats it about? ... Arachnophobia. Yeah, whats it about? I dont know yet, but its such good shit, pal! In the late 80s and early 90s, Im fairly convinced that was the general pitch meeting in Hollywood.
Rating: 11/100


Snake - Why I Chose It - Arachnophobia is a cult film that is a send-up to classic b-movies, mainly from the 50s-70s. I wanted a movie on this list that really invoked what those films set out to accomplish. It was a moderate box office success, but is far more remembered by arachnophobes for being one of the biggest triggers out there.

My Thoughts - It's a crime how long this film is. With such a simple concept, this should be a very in-n-out affair, but instead it drags on and on with way too many characters and a weirdly over-complicated plot. Call me simple, but a movie called Arachnophobia should just be about spiders and not some weird Amazon undiscovered species that has the most convulted way of coming over to the US so the movie can start. However, I will admit to liking the use of the practical effects, John Goodman's character, and the pretty funny ending.

Inviso - John Goodman is the hero of this movie for obvious reasons. Fuck this movie. Thats all.
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StifledSilence
06/25/19 12:50:27 PM
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lmao did Gen really think John Goodman was Meatloaf?
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Snake5555555555
06/25/19 1:02:10 PM
#94:


Outlier

Genny - 49
Inviso - 46
Charon - 40
KBM - 39
Johnbobb - 31
Karo - 31
Snake - 13
JONA - 9
Scarlet - 5

It's a big race for the top now!
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Vengeful_KBM
06/25/19 1:28:44 PM
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Well, at least Blair Witch Project went out way earlier than can be expected. That was a pleasant surprise for sure. Sad about Arachnophobia being Bottom 5 but I'm not entirely surprised either.
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GenesisSaga
06/25/19 1:34:36 PM
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StifledSilence posted...
lmao did Gen really think John Goodman was Meatloaf?

This was an in-joke. Char thought he was Meatloaf at first :P
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StifledSilence
06/25/19 1:51:53 PM
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GenesisSaga posted...
StifledSilence posted...
lmao did Gen really think John Goodman was Meatloaf?

This was an in-joke. Char thought he was Meatloaf at first :P


Haha thats amazing.

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GenesisSaga
06/25/19 3:37:03 PM
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Actually come to think of it that might have been the heavyset gentleman from Leprechaun who he mistook for Meatloaf initially, which would make that joke misplaced. Oh well...
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Lopen
06/25/19 5:25:06 PM
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Arachnophobia now that's a kind of dumb that I never appreciated even in a "leave it on as noise" kinda way. Probably my #39. Something about the movie always bugged me. Probably a combination of the pacing and not having much fear of spiders in general.
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v_charon
06/25/19 7:37:34 PM
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Not a ton to add about this one; I'm surprised it's this low, let alone someone's #40 though. Very inoffensive film imo. That writeup reads like Inviso just has literal arachnophobia.
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