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Halloween Discussion and Debate Thread: OVERRATED HORROR FILMS
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Date: October 12th, 2017 8:50 AM Author: sadistic bright roommate I'll start:
Overrated but still good/great *Psycho *The Conjuring *Suspiria *The Fog Overrated but okay: *The Exorcist *Ringu *Friday the 13th *Hostel *Paranormal Activity *Let's Scare Jessica to Death *Alien Overrated and SPS: *Saw |
Date: October 12th, 2017 8:51 AM Author: aromatic olive useless brakes wrinkle Mostly agreed. Think ALIEN is great but don't consider it horror.
SAW would've been much better in prose. The story idea is good, but the action is all characterological. |
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Date: October 12th, 2017 8:52 AM Author: sadistic bright roommate I think Saw would have made an interesting stage play (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3761789&forum_id=2#34423693) |
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Date: October 12th, 2017 8:53 AM Author: aromatic olive useless brakes wrinkle Yes! Maybe as a comedy by John McDonagh LJL. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3761789&forum_id=2#34423698) |
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Date: October 12th, 2017 9:01 AM Author: titillating frum twinkling uncleanness Daughters of Darkness Cannibal Holocaust The Fly (80s) Manos: The Hands of Fate
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Date: October 12th, 2017 9:03 AM Author: aromatic olive useless brakes wrinkle are you saying Manos is even worse than its reputation as the worst? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3761789&forum_id=2#34423734) |
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Date: October 12th, 2017 9:38 AM Author: titillating frum twinkling uncleanness People try to pull the whole "its so bad its good" meme with it, which is wrong because its just boring. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3761789&forum_id=2#34423859) |
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Date: October 12th, 2017 10:08 AM Author: effete primrose friendly grandma pit that's how I felt about attack of the killer tomatoes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3761789&forum_id=2#34424044) |
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Date: October 12th, 2017 7:50 PM Author: titillating frum twinkling uncleanness But that film was intentionally bad ("camp"). I don't like that kind of gay shit either. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3761789&forum_id=2#34428611) |
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Date: October 12th, 2017 10:12 AM Author: aromatic olive useless brakes wrinkle ah. usually when people say "it's so bad it's good" I stop listening after the third word. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3761789&forum_id=2#34424082) |
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Date: October 12th, 2017 10:06 AM Author: effete primrose friendly grandma pit Agreed on Daughters of Darkness; it looks great but it doesn't deliver the goods (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3761789&forum_id=2#34424024) |
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Date: October 12th, 2017 9:41 AM Author: ungodly location Psycho is Hitchcock's masterpiece and a T10 all-time movie faggot
The problem is classifying it as "horror." Imagine if it were released today - it would be a "crime thriller" or something |
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Date: October 12th, 2017 10:05 AM Author: effete primrose friendly grandma pit It's a little too jerky; lots of the middle doesn't really work beyond being an engine to get to the next set piece.
Frenzy, Rear Window, North by Northwest, Shadow of a Doubt all better |
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Date: October 12th, 2017 10:16 AM Author: ungodly location define "the middle" (where does it start and end) before i engage u further (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3761789&forum_id=2#34424119) |
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Date: October 12th, 2017 6:42 PM Author: effete primrose friendly grandma pit Boring shit after murder 1 and before murder 2
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Date: October 12th, 2017 9:43 AM Author: 180 zombie-like quadroon The Ring (2002) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3761789&forum_id=2#34423873) |
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Date: October 12th, 2017 10:12 AM Author: Contagious step-uncle's house associate Fuck you, that movie rules. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3761789&forum_id=2#34424076) |
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Date: October 12th, 2017 10:13 AM Author: Stirring dysfunction main people Psycho is one of the best movies ever made.
A recent horror movie that was praised but is actually pretty bad is Drag Me to Hell |
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Date: October 12th, 2017 10:15 AM Author: effete primrose friendly grandma pit I lieked it
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Date: October 12th, 2017 10:16 AM Author: cocky antidepressant drug Event Horizon is widely-liked but I thought it was atrocious. Friend and I didn't find it scary at all and instead just laughed through the whole thing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3761789&forum_id=2#34424120) |
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Date: October 12th, 2017 6:43 PM Author: Motley Costumed Mood Home i liked it a lot when i saw it, but i was 17 at the time and i have better taste now than i did then
i want to re-watch it and see what i think now |
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Date: October 12th, 2017 7:40 PM Author: cocky antidepressant drug Interesting. I saw it when I was 15 or 16 and my friend and I simply couldn't stop laughing at it. Not a good vibe for a non-campy horror film. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3761789&forum_id=2#34428515) |
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Date: October 12th, 2017 6:41 PM Author: cocky antidepressant drug (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3761789&forum_id=2#34428132) |
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Date: October 12th, 2017 6:42 PM Author: cerebral principal's office philosopher-king Saw 1 is definitely not overrated (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3761789&forum_id=2#34428140) |
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Date: October 12th, 2017 6:43 PM Author: effete primrose friendly grandma pit Saw III is the only actually good one. I also think the twist in II is underrated (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3761789&forum_id=2#34428148) |
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Date: October 12th, 2017 6:44 PM Author: Motley Costumed Mood Home i LOVE saw 3. my favorite out of the 5 (i think?) that ive seen
i also like saw 1 and 2 |
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Date: October 12th, 2017 6:46 PM Author: cerebral principal's office philosopher-king Saw 1's twist is legendary, and 2's twist is definitely underrated. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3761789&forum_id=2#34428178) |
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Date: October 12th, 2017 6:48 PM Author: Motley Costumed Mood Home (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3761789&forum_id=2#34428198) |
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Date: October 12th, 2017 6:43 PM Author: Pea-brained yellow institution famous landscape painting It (2017) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3761789&forum_id=2#34428147) |
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Date: October 12th, 2017 6:45 PM Author: Motley Costumed Mood Home mpa, what are your thoughts on high tension and wolf creek?
the first time i saw high tension i was really stoned and it scared the shit out of me. the second time i saw it i was like "hrm, this isnt scary at all". idk |
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Date: October 12th, 2017 6:49 PM Author: effete primrose friendly grandma pit Haven't seen either yet. I like new French extremity but the twist to high tension sounds so ball crushingly dumb (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3761789&forum_id=2#34428211) |
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Date: October 12th, 2017 6:51 PM Author: Motley Costumed Mood Home yeah honestly it would have been a better movie without the twist
i think it scared me so much bc i was stoned but i was legit terrified the entire movie
watch wolf creek then and let me know what you think.
YOU STILL NEED TO WATCH LOST HIGHWAY BTW. :) |
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Date: October 12th, 2017 6:52 PM Author: effete primrose friendly grandma pit It's on the list maybe tomorrow night (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3761789&forum_id=2#34428234) |
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Date: October 12th, 2017 6:52 PM Author: violent excitant gas station the shining was never actually scary (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3761789&forum_id=2#34428236) |
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Date: October 12th, 2017 6:53 PM Author: cerebral principal's office philosopher-king not really scary, but that bedroom scene at the end with the guy in the pig mask blowing the butler really fucked me in the head as a child (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3761789&forum_id=2#34428249) |
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Date: October 12th, 2017 6:54 PM Author: aromatic olive useless brakes wrinkle hilarious he kept that in but cut the whole subplot re: the weird sex parties. i'm sure there's a callback in EWS or something.
Also LJL at the camera-slip in the opening scene. Amateurish! |
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Date: October 12th, 2017 6:53 PM Author: aromatic olive useless brakes wrinkle you're not supposed to be scared Jack will come at you; it's scary you might become Jack. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3761789&forum_id=2#34428250) |
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Date: October 12th, 2017 6:56 PM Author: effete primrose friendly grandma pit True although the book does a better job of that. The horror in the book is Jack can't keep it together. But as King points out, from scene 1 in the film you can tell Jack is nuts
The Shining is a work of art don't get me wrong, but I do prefer the psychological realism, and almost Zola-esque naturalism, of the novel. |
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Date: October 12th, 2017 7:47 PM Author: aromatic olive useless brakes wrinkle I think The Shining (film, Kubrick) may work better if you've been socialized to everyday psychopathy to the extent Jack Nicholson's unworldly mugging doesn't seem entirely out of place in a quotidian setting. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3761789&forum_id=2#34428592) |
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Date: October 12th, 2017 7:56 PM Author: effete primrose friendly grandma pit Yeah I saw it before becoming a lawyer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3761789&forum_id=2#34428660) |
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Date: October 13th, 2017 7:44 PM Author: aromatic olive useless brakes wrinkle (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3761789&forum_id=2#34437141) |
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Date: October 12th, 2017 6:53 PM Author: aromatic olive useless brakes wrinkle Suspiria was SPS. Just a bag of gimmicks.
Nosferatu (1922) is boring AF. Maybe revolutionary @ the time but let's get serious. Not a good movie. |
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Date: October 12th, 2017 6:54 PM Author: Motley Costumed Mood Home dude, its from fucking 1922. cut it some slack. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3761789&forum_id=2#34428257) |
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Date: October 12th, 2017 7:58 PM Author: cerebral principal's office philosopher-king It (2017) It Follows I Know What You Did Last Summer The Mist
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Date: October 13th, 2017 12:13 AM Author: Floppy windowlicker i wasn't that impressed by evil dead. a bit too campy. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3761789&forum_id=2#34430890) |