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Saved!It's really hard to find scary movies. Can anyone recommend a great horror movie?
I personally find pretty much every mainstream horror film disappointing. Right now I'd really just like a movie that puts the scares first.-
Saved!KlemoibEditing … You've seen pretty much every movie. How could anyone recommend you anything? I personally like " antichrist" (that fox still gives me nightmares) "Men" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_(2022_film) and recently saw "talk to me", "the waling" and "Cure" They were pretty cool. "Hereditary" was also pretty good -
Saved!Husky WingEditing … Even with all the movies I've seen (a few hundred a year, lately about 3 a day) there are always more to see. I think those ones are too mainstream to get the job done. I saw Talk to Me, and that had parts I liked, but the gen z teen culture and obsessive phone use was just annoying. I was pretty down on Alex Garland after Annihilation and Civil War, but Ex Machina was fantastic, so I could give Men a try. I have Antichrist, but haven't seen it yet. I don't think it's the type of horror that'd actually scare me though? Like how not everyone's turned on by the same porn. I think of movie fears like fetishes. -
Saved!Husky WingEditing … If you wanna see the movie I probably consider the scariest, you should see Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum :)
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … Maybe I should stick to rewatching horror films. Go back to ones I saw many years ago, like The Last Exorcism.
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Saved!KlemoibEditing … "gen z teen culture and obsessive phone use was just annoying." I can see why you say that. Initially I thought the same, but instead of it being a movie that caters to gen z phone obsession it actually is ABOUT gen z phone obsession looked at from an outsiders perspective. The movie was actually inspired by an event where a teen overdosed or something and instead of helping him, everyone just started filming him. In the movie the phone is actually an isolating factor. In the end the protag is completely isolated from everyone she loves which I thought was pretty well done.
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Saved!KlemoibEditing … "I have Antichrist, but haven't seen it yet. I don't think it's the type of horror that'd actually scare me though? Like how not everyone's turned on by the same porn. I think of movie fears like fetishes." For me it was the freakiest movie ever. I don't get scared from gore or jump scares. Psychological horror is the only thing that works for me. So Antichrist is until now the one that scared me the most. Men did a good job as well and it also has really beautiful and eerie parts.
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Saved!KlemoibEditing … Melancholia also gave me the creepies but not as much as antichrist.
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Saved!KlemoibEditing … I'll keep the Gonjiam in mind thanks!
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Saved!KlemoibEditing … I don't know it it's horror enough, but "the village" was a pretty cool movie.
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … I like Melancholia a lot, but I'd never think to group it with horror movies. I didn't like The Village as much, but likewise :p
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … If I made a horror movie about teens, I'd set it in the 2000s and at least one of them would be a skater. One would carry a skateboard around, but he's just a poser, he never uses it. The central horror premise would be some kind of metaphor for how everything's worse after the 2000s, but unlike in mainstream prestige horror, this would be left subtle.
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … I'm too horror porned out. Everything's too vanilla for me now.
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … The best horror movies have like a 30-60% on rottentomatoes and a 5.5/10 on IMDB, because horror aficionados had a great time, and vanilla audiences were too alienated. When I see a 90%+ horror film on RT, I know I'm in for something generic and accessible.
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … th-thanks nodley
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Saved!KlemoibEditing … "but I'd never think to group it with horror movies" Yeah I figured that's what a sane person would think. Still scarier to me than most horror movies. The village 2nd half sucked but the first half was interesting to me.
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Saved!KlemoibEditing … "If I made a horror movie about teens, I'd set it in the 2000s and at least one of them would be a skater. One would carry a skateboard around, but he's just a poser, he never uses it." brilliant. It can be like "Rubber"
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Saved!KlemoibEditing … "Everything's too vanilla for me" I also find it difficult to like most movies. Looking at samurai movies gave me new hope. I think I realized it was just Hollywood that made me hate movies. But now the samurai movies are almost all used up..... I almost watched all of the good ones. The modern ones suck ass so I need to find a new refuge from Hollywood soon.
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … I don't dislike The Village. I appreciate most movies. I think its setup and twists are all iconic. The films I'm least tolerant of are probably soulless franchise movies and weak-ass horror.
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … klemmo you should see more indie movies.
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Saved!KlemoibEditing … Tell me all about the indie movies. It's nice to see other people who appreciate the effort that goes into making movies instead of just movies as a time waster. Most people who don't make anything themselves are quick to judge anything they think is weird or does not cater to them.
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Saved!KlemoibEditing … Do you also happen to know any noire films that embody the cliche depressed smoking/alcoholic detective with hot client with a bitch-stick? Everybody knows the cliche but I tried to find the origin of the cliche but I could not find an actual movie like that. Most detectives from that time period are not what I had in mind. Modern ones either.
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … Indie movies get submitted to film festivals, and the distribution deals they make there are how the filmmakers make back their money, and for new filmmakers it's how they break into the industry. Some big filmmakers alternate between making a studio movie, and then an indie movie they have more control over. For indies, I highly recommend Another Earth (2011), Resolution (2012), The Man from Earth (2007), Apples (2020), The Spiderwebhouse (2015). I dunno who financed Playground (2021) but it's probably independent. My favorite movie, Cloud Atlas (2012) is actually one of the most expensive indie movies ever made. Some other movies to watch are Kin-dza-dza! (1986), City of Pirates (1983), The Conformist (1970), Babylon (2022), Under the Silver Lake (2018) and Where the Wild Things Are (2009). If you haven't seen Labyrinth (1986) then we're gonna fight.
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … Have you seen Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid? It's a parody of the genre you're after, and it incorporates footage from just the sort of movies you're looking for.
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … Also see everything on my stop motion list https://www.favslist.com/users/Husky-Wing/115/lists/707/
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … To see the magic of Hollywood: The Lord of the Rings trilogy (extended) are somehow some of the best works of cinema. Top Gun: Maverick, Mad Max: Fury Road & Furiosa, Gladiator, Pirates of the Caribbean, Blade Runner, Shrek.
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … Oh dude. You gotta see The French Dispatch.
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … Watch The Court Jester (1955) and Calamity Jane (1953).
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Saved!KlemoibEditing … Yes! Movies! Thanks for the many recommendations. I'll put them on my list to check out. It's nice to know how indie films make money. I only know one guy who submitted a short film to Cannes or something (that guy really is a terrible film maker and more in love with the idea of being a film director than actually making films) but he somehow got a prize. It blew up his ego and now he's a bigger douche than before and he started spending money he didn't have and snorting cocaine. (never give narcissistic douches prizes unless they really are brilliant. Let them earn the coke) I think that colored my idea of indie film festivals but of course actual good film makers also go there. It may be kind of like the art world where you can become known just because you are able to convince people you are brilliant, but then there are also a lot actually brilliant artists in the same environment that mainstream "vanilla" people would hate. It's up to you to find out which is which.
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … I wish someone would message me every day on Steam and ask for a recommendation.
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … I should update all my movie lists so you can have more movies to watch
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … Shia Labeouf was in two very excellent indie movies in 2019, one of which he wrote. The Peanut Butter Falcon and Honey Boy.
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Saved!KlemoibEditing … "To see the magic of Hollywood: The Lord of the Rings trilogy " I did see that and I really wanted to die. I thought it would never end. I cannot stand the hobbits and the fucking walking trees and all the other fantasy creatures. The "thou shalt not pass" guy was pretty epic though and New Zealand really is beautiful. You could take out all the nature shots and make a fantastic documentary.
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … gonna punch you in the nether-lands
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Saved!KlemoibEditing … "I wish someone would message me every day on Steam and ask for a recommendation." There must be a market for that. So many lost souls not being able to find their favorite movie.
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Saved!KlemoibEditing … I really enjoy dissing LOTR. Completely worth the time investment.
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … There's a Dutch movie I really wanted to see cuz it's about Chet Baker, but there aren't any English subs I can track down (I even reached out to the director, but didn't get a response). My Foolish Heart (2018). There's another great Chet Baker movie called Born to Be Blue (2015), which tells a completely fictional story in the spirit of the artist's life. I guess while I'm talking about Chet Baker movies, the actor who plays Chet Baker's dad in Born to Be Blue also played a character based on Chet Baker in Dreamland (2019—there are actually two 2019 movies with this name). That one's a totally unrelated spinoff of Pontypool (2008), one of the best and most creative zombie movies. Arthur Fleck in Joker: Folie à Deux (1972) sings like Chet Baker.
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Saved!NodleyEditing … Calamity Jane. I've not seen that since the mid 80s probably.
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … Oh oh, I totally recommend seeing The Wandering Earth and The Wandering Earth II. I thought the first movie was pretty good, not as great as I was hoping, but the second movie, a prequel, blew me away.
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … Salaam Bombay! is an amazing movie I also recommend seeing. Also S. S. Rajamouli's movies Eega, Baahubali and RRR (all I've seen from him so far, all excellent).
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Saved!KlemoibEditing … Wait..... I forgot LOTR made Hugo Weaving into an elf. That's top tier cinema right there. I take everything back. 10/10
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Saved!KlemoibEditing … "There's a Dutch movie I really wanted to see cuz it's about Chet Baker, but there aren't any English subs I can track down" What's the name?
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … My Foolish Heart (2018).
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Saved!KlemoibEditing … Wait. But I hear English speaking in the trailer. You don't need subs for that then right?
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … I'm not sure how much English is in it. I tried watching it though, and much of it's in Dutch. I think it opened with cops at the scene of Chet Baker's overdose in Amsterdam, and I couldn't understand the netherpolice.
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Saved!KlemoibEditing … "netherpolice." lol. Strange. Usually a movie is consistent in language.
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Saved!KlemoibEditing … If you ever want to watch a good Dutch movie, "Borgman" is my fave and "De laatse dagen van Emma Blank" (The Last Days of Emma Blank). I think Alex van Warmedam is the best director we have to offer here. His movies are strange, and have a certain biting Dutch humor.
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … I'll watch them. I've surely seen some Dutch movies before. I try to see movies from every country and in every language. There are a lot of those though. Mostly I just watch movies without any regard for what language they're in, so long as there are decent subs available.
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … Terminator: Salvation has a fullscreen DVD. It's not pan and scan. I'm very happy. In the fullscreen version of either T1 or T2, you can see the waistband of Arnie's boxers when he's supposed to be nude. In the fullscreen version of T3, you get to see titties. I love alternate aspect ratios that aren't just cropped.
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … It took me ages to track down a Gladiator fullscreen DVD that might've only been released in Thailand. Very cool.
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Saved!NodleyEditing … Tell me more about these titties
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … You can see the Terminatrix's bare titties, which are cropped out of the theatrical or blu-ray aspect ratio.
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Saved!KlemoibEditing … "I try to see movies from every country and in every language. " It was a revelation to me to realize there are so many more movies to choose from if you don't only look at English movies. In my mind it was like: "WOW! Who would have thunk?" It's a stupid realization but to me it was as if I finally realized that the square goes into the square hole and not into the round hole.
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Saved!KlemoibEditing … Secret dvd terminator titties. Now that's the content I come here for.
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Saved!NodleyEditing … I'm not interested in porn titties or titties that you're supposed to see. But show me a flash of secret titties and I want some of that.
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … There's also a 16:9 version, but you get more titties with the extra height of 4:3. Lots of movies have a scope version (2.35, 2.39, or 2.4:1), 16:9 HDTV version (licensed to TV networks), and 4:3 fullscreen DVD (or SD TV) version. Some movies, even when they're mostly opening up the frame, clearly look better in their theatrical scope aspect ratio (Titanic, 300). Some movies look so intentionally framed for their expanded aspect ratios that they might be a better viewing experience than the theatrical original (16:9 Gladiator, 4:3 versions of lots of Kubrick movies. Big fan of 4:3 Eyes Wide Shut).
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … Movies don't get alternative 4:3 versions anymore, since there's no demand for fullscreen DVDs now that every TV's 16:9. I thought Terminator: Salvation was surely too new to get one, so I really lucked out, cuz this 4:3 offers a really nice alternate crop. The cinematography in that movie's incredibly underrated. Expanded or alternate-crop 16:9 versions are still very common, and now that many blockbusters are shot with digital "IMAX" cameras at 1.9:1, we often get a choice between watching in scope or "IMAX" (in branding only). Dune: Part Two actually had a 2.39:1 standard theatrical and home release version, a 2.2:1 70mm print version, a 1.9:1 IMAX version, and a variable 1.9:1 and 1.43:1 IMAX version. I hope we at least get to have the 1.9:1 version at home too someday. Ideally the uncropped 1.43:1 frames would always get a home release too.
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Saved!NodleyEditing … OMG 4:3 titties!
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Saved!ExplojinEditing … Room? Left the theater with quite a bit of dread after that one. -
Saved!Husky WingEditing … I wouldn't call it close to horror, but great drama.
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Saved!KlemoibEditing … VHS titties.
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