>The Peter Vincent character was named after horror icons Peter Cushing and Vincent Price, and Holland specifically wrote the part for Price,[5][8] but at this point in his career, Price had been so badly typecast that he had stopped accepting roles in horror movies.[11] But then shortly after, he did From a Whisper to a Scream. Maybe he just didn't like the script or felt like it would be too much action for a man his age. Roddy McDowell did a great job, but I do wonder what the movie would be like with Vincent Price essentially playing himself in it.
Coincidentally, both actors died in the month of October.
Just got back from Hokum. For some reason it felt like a video game to me. Not sure why, I guess it was just the structure of the film. Overall I enjoyed it.
>>220468850 He's great in it. All the leads are. I normally don't find Taissa Farmiga and Daddario to be great acting talents, but they absolutely nailed it in this.
>>220468857 see above plus the film has a stylish aesthetic, score, photography, and narrative framing. It feels like a Wes Anderson film, but it is not pretentious, doesn't waste your time. It's very straightforward and lets you know right what you're in for. Watch it tonight.
>>220468899 >It feels like a Wes Anderson film, but it is not pretentious, doesn't waste your time. I have a soft spot for some of his films so that's great to hear, as long as it isn't too artsy-fartsy. >Watch it tonight. Putting it on now.
>>220469920 I ought to rewatch that top, more because I wasn't much of a fan the first time I saw it and I want to give it another shot. I remember really hating the sound mixing. Just loud, harsh noises all throughout that grate on the ears and add nothing
>>220470179 Yes. It's quite different from the film, which is one of the reasons I like the movie so much. Shirley Jackson was a great writer. Her most famous book is probably The Haunting of Hill House, which was adapted into a miniseries.
>>220470199 >Shirley Jackson was a great writer I read The Lottery and The Haunting of Hill House many years ago. But I had never heard of the Castle one. Will watch the movie and read the book some day.
>>220470212 >I don't see any other trans artists getting budgets, and that's a fucking shame. The fucked up thing is, if the world rightly saw trannies as bizarre sexual freaks, I would support them making weird underground movies as part of a niche, punk movement. The fact that there's a push to have them accepted as a normal part of everyday life forces me to oppose them and see them as enemies. For lack of a better phrase, they just need to know their place.
>In Sanguine/Species a young medical student working at an ER witnesses a new virus spreading among young patients, a mysterious mutation among the new generation that starts affecting her. >“I wanted to tell a story about bodies forced to change, to evolve and adapt to a very toxic and demanding workplace,” writer/director Marion Le Corroller explains to Deadline. https://x.com/What_The_Films/status/2054161476424700011 another french wahmen body horror director
>>220470858 >Species Isn't that title already taken? >Sanguine/Species What the fuck is this retard doing? Is this one of those "different titles for different markets" things? WHY?
Why is /hor/ so old? In other generals i can tell i'm talking to other millennials but in /hor/ it seems like 90% of you are Xers who peaked in the early 90s.
>>220471159 You'd think they'd call it Blood. Maybe that's the title that's taken. Similar puzzle with Kairo, in Japanese it seems to mean Circuit but they made the english name Pulse for some reason.
>Guillermo Del Toro Teases His Adaptation Of Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘The Buried Giant’ At BFI Career Talk: “A Fascinatingly Difficult Stop-Motion Movie For Adults” slightly off topic but more kino news. though it's del fatzo so I give it about 34% chance of happening.
>>220469047 >>220469331 Horror is not necessarily about gore though. There are plenty of horror films that don't have any gore or at least exceedingly little like when you would fall down and scrape your knee as a child levels. There's an example of a bloodless horror film right here even >>220467151
>Halloween franchise favorites Scout Taylor-Compton and Danielle Harris teamed up to write, direct, produce, and star in Last Chance Motel, and the first images have surfaced. >Heather Langenkamp casually mogging them
>>220471709 >then its something like gothic horror which is at least horror adjacent >gothic horror >horror adjacent The stupidity of the average horror fan continues to astound me
>>220471672 Not necessarily no but let's say for the sake of argument that it is who decides whether or not something is scary? You? What's scary to you might not be scary to me and vice versa. That's why these arguments are pointless all of the nuance is usually lost on people that like to treat "horror" as this magic seal of approval that will always guarantee them the experience they so crave with 100% satisfaction every time but that world simply does not exist.
>>220473289 There's something especially spooky about seeing something that's practically out of sight initially gradaully come into view. Lake Mungo is probably the best example of how good this is.
>>220471440 OKAY? But old horror like, literally sucks. People start laughing when they see 80s horror, the shitty costumes, effects and hear the terrible audio mixing. You think people today are scared of Jason x Freddy? NO. People are scared of ghosts, not of some pedo mutant killing teens.
WE as a general should BAN 80s discussion. Let's talk about the 70s and the 00s. Those were good decades.
>>220477818 Looks like a film that's not really up my alley, but probably pretty good for those who enjoy it. It looks like a GCI style meant to imitate stop motion, which is kind of disappointing, but understandable. True craftsmanship is getting more and more difficult to pull off these days.
That movie was pretty good. Even if I don't connect with the TikTok culture. See if it was about Rotten and Ogrish then it would be more my kind of generation.
>>220482016 Not by name right? Just the "Don't Fuck With Cats" which iirc is from here. I just remember NEDM (Not Even Doom Music) from way back in the day in relation to cat violence.
>>220484758 It's actually her best performance as an actress too. Despite being nude, she came across as such an alien that I didn't find it attractive.
>"Halloween 2 sucks because it made Michael Myers and Laurie related, FUCK that shit" Was this pedo right? Also: >*The most recent trilogy retcons them being related because according to the director "it would be scarier if Michael Myers just killed random people unrelated to Laurie* >*Ends up going after Laurie in all the movies anyways and gets killed by her* What was the point of the retcon if you were going to do the same shit, then?
>>220486120 Halloween Ends was terrible. In the entire trilogy, Michael was shown as heavy and strong. Then two middle aged out women end up overpowering him in the end.
>>220467151 Claire was a bitch but so was Mark, the ghost wanted some male companionship and he straight up rejected her. This is why I fucking hate incels, they only want girls in their OWN way but are unable to improvise on the spot.
>>220485151 >When her cousin started dragging her up the stairs I wanted her to bite his head off. God same here. I was waiting for that witch to snap, especially when it was later revealed she was responsible for the sugar poisoning. Great cast, honestly; Farmiga Jr, Crispin Glover, and Sebastian Stan all killed it, especially during those kitchen scenes. Personally, I hated how Connie never truly stuck up for her fucked-up little sister, plus Daddario ended up getting outshined by everyone else.
>>220485444 I enjoyed Last Rites a bit but I'm obviously biased since I love 'em both. I did hate how they teased a Farmiga crossover in the Nun 2 post-credits scene that never came to fruition. The Devil Made Me Do It was the easily the worst one though.
>>220486120 No, if you're going to continue making sequels I think giving them a stronger connection works >The Empire Strikes Back sucks because it made Luke, Vader, and Leia related
>Fear and desire make an explosive cocktail in Jane Schoenbrun’s instant midnight-movie classic Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, a psychedelic tribute to the slasher-horror cycle of the early ’80s that subversively reclaims the genre from the traditional male gaze. It’s clear from the outset where Schoenbrun is headed, creating a mash-up of the better-known canon — Halloween, Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street (in order of appearance) — but the added twist is the inclusion of 1983’s Sleepaway Camp, which ends with a transgressive twist that still somehow divides LGBTQ+ film critics, despite its obvious transphobia.
>After the credits roll, the film finds film director Kris (Hannah Einbinder), a non-binary, polyamorous Sundance wunderkind, being tasked with rebooting the Camp Miasma franchise. Kris has political reasons for doing this, since they know they are being exploited by the studio to give the project a veneer of PC credibility. But Kris is also a classic Schoenbrun heroine, an outsider whose lifeline is pop culture, and despite her apparent militance, she is not entirely at home in her sexual identity, as evidenced by her clearly unhappy relationship with a woman she shares with a bisexual man named Thor.
>>220486120 To be fair in Halloween 2018 Michael doesn't set out for Laurie, he is brought to her forcibly. He doesn't seem to give a fuck about her specifically. And I don't think they even interact at all in Kills. Then in Ends he's chasing after Cory to get his mask back and Laurie just happens to be there to fight him.
>>220486743 Kills dedicates its runtime to telling Laurie to get over herself. I really wish they would have stuck with the idea of the entire DGG trilogy taking place over the course of one Halloween night.
>>220486308 >Personally, I hated how Connie never truly stuck up for her fucked-up little sister, plus Daddario ended up getting outshined by everyone else. Well, in the first act, while the two ladies were visiting the Blackwells, they discussed that Constance had confessed to the police that she had done it, even telling them that they all deserved it. Then at the end, she stated to Merricat that she always knew it was her who poisoned the sugar. So in the aftermath, Constance threw herself under the bus for Merricat and was dragged through a very public trial in a small town where she was painted a familicidal mass murderer. That was the trauma which left her so timid and unable to leave their house. I read the ending as them having an ongoing unspoken understanding that they will always love and protect each other.
>>220486308 >>220487368 And Daddario was definitely overshadowed by the more expressive performances of the other leads, but that was how her character was written. She gave a very subtle performance, but I think she did a stellar job with it.
>>220470377 >spends months upon months calling other posters cucks >now expresses excitement that others might join him in watching his waifu getting fucked lil
>>220486120 Well, the people in charge of the merch must think that "Halloween II"(1981) is the best movie ever because they spam the shit out of "bleeding eyes Michael Myers" and if you look at the copyright more often than not it reads "Halloween II, all rights reserved"
>>220487659 It flies under the radar for many. The only reason I know about it is it played on TV on some cable network back in the 80s and my family had it recorded on VHS.
>>220489243 nta but I'm as suspicious of guys who get off on guys fucking their girls as I am of guys who go super dom in service of making their women happy. Being actually sexually selfish just turns them off. They want everything to be a performance for their benefit.
>>220486120 Also, this comment is really stupid because Michael Myers and Laurie are related is not the problem. The problems are it takes place in one location and loses the suspense of 'where is he going to show' up in the first one. It also introduces no new characters that the audience cares about, like Annie. This further makes it lack suspense because you know the throw away characters are just going to die. Friday the 13th suffers from this too with characters, but is offset by the kills being unique and unsuspected. Which is also what probably results in people rooting more for Jason.
Watching this tonight. From what I gather it's a low budget Scream style satire with an alien monster instead of a slasher. Also came out years before Scream.
>>220492147 In my limited knowledge, >the best Deadstream, if zoomer horror just means a generally recent movie. I've come around to the Damian McCarthy trilogy as well, for a more serious pick. I think they're pretty good >worst Iron Lung was just stupid
>>220466770 Vincent Price was nearly 20 years older than Roddy, doubt it would have worked as well for the character. Roddy was already in his late 50s when the flick was shot.
>>220468505 >able to crush a man with enough force and speed that it can pull him through a sink drain in a matter of seconds >somehow unable to break into a fucking phone booth
I mean, Rule of Cool and all that but I don't think a little internal consistency is too much to ask for.
Faces of Death is fine. A similar movie came out last year called American Sweatshop featuring Lili Reinhart (the Forbidden Fruits girl). Both movies are about content moderators and both even do the whole reddit sleuth/detective thing. American Sweatshop is more subtle compared to Faces of Death. Reminder to watch director Daniel Goldhaber's Cam and How to Blow Up a Pipeline. The former is horror kino featuring Madeline Brewer.
>>220471734 I remember how Danielle said she went up to Jaime Lee Curtis at some horror convention to introduce herself (since they had both already starred in Halloween movies) and JLC simply stated "I don't know who you are" and then basically told her to fuck off. Kek.
>>220472182 They waited way too long to make Wolf Creek 2 and 3. The first movie literally started shooting 22 years ago this very month. And Greg McLean fucked up by choosing to make Rogue instead of WC2 for a 2007 release as well. He didn't even get to start filming WC2 until nearly 9 whole years after he shot the first one.
>Singer and actress Halsey co-writes and stars in the upcoming Replacer from director Avan Jogia, which is being described as a “psychosexual horror movie.” >Stranded in Montreal, Proxy (Halsey), a troubled DJ, meets an alluring artist and his group of friends who run an underground radio station. The station’s broadcast becomes warped by a mysterious signal hidden deep beneath the city’s subway system.
