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[☭ Bob Loblaw ☭]

^^ bro, can we kiss? I adore every single one of those pics

[Aaron]

Pontypool rocked

Love seeing it mentioned

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Man trailers for some bangers were absolute dog shit back in the day.

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Aug 13, 2024 20:29:46 GMT -5 Aaron said:

Pontypool rocked

Love seeing it mentioned

Joked how absurd The River Wild remake was but there was US Pontypool remake with Bill Moseley in 2009 called Dead Air haha.

[antipasto]

I love a mean-spirited movie (probably my favorite genre) but terrifier did nothing for me

[feelthedorkness]

Just realized I didn’t do the 2020s. I’ve honestly not seen a whole lot of horror from the last few years that knocked me out like my favorite of the last decade, but four that come to mind:

Speak No Evil
Last Night in SoHo (I know this film didn’t connect with a lot of people, and I get it, but I really dig it)
Pearl
The Medium

[antipasto]

60’s- Two Thousand Maniacs
70’s- Texas Chainsaw/ Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh/ Last House on the Left/ Beyond the Darkness
80’- Cannibal Holocaust
90’s- Audition
00’s- May or Martyrs
10’s- The Witch
20’s- probably Possessor

The 70’s are easily the best decade for horror. There’s so many others I could have listed. The best of grimy, sleazy shit from the US, Spain and Titaly. Insane

[I Gave You Power]

I’m gonna do three per decade too:

1950s: House on Haunted Hill, Bucket of Blood, the Mad Magician

1960s: The Cremator, Blood and Black Lace, Psycho

1970s: Halloween, Phantasm, Theatre of Blood

1980s: The Shining, Inferno, The New Kids

1990s: Misery, Event Horizon, Cure

2000s: Saw, Cloverfield, 1408

2010s: I Saw the Devil, The Wailing, Maniac

2020s: Barbarian, Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes, Slaxx

[I Gave You Power]

Aug 13, 2024 20:29:46 GMT -5 Aaron said:

Pontypool rocked

Love seeing it mentioned

Really good movie. Creative in a sub-genre of horror where it’s really difficult to be so.

[feelthedorkness]

Aug 13, 2024 20:45:46 GMT -5 I Gave You Power said:

I’m gonna do three per decade too:

1950s: House on Haunted Hill, Bucket of Blood, the Mad Magician

1960s: The Cremator, Blood and Black Lace, Psycho

1970s: Halloween, Phantasm, Theatre of Blood

1980s: The Shining, Inferno, The New Kids

1990s: Misery, Event Horizon, Cure

2000s: Saw, Cloverfield, 1408

2010s: I Saw the Devil, The Wailing, Maniac

2020s: Barbarian, Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes, Slaxx

Some great picks on here. Shout out for the 1408 pic. I was in 8th grade and felt my first boob when seeing that in theaters lol

[antipasto]

The Cremator is a great pick

[I Gave You Power]

Aug 13, 2024 19:29:30 GMT -5 @dogdickrussia said:

Horror is a suuuuuper fickle genre and I rarely ever go into any one with expectations of actually being scared or seeing some cinematic masterpiece. I'm doing 3 picks and an honorable mention/wild card recommendation. 
I'm so down for a film thread horror discussion outside of the horror thread because a lot of our tastes do tend of overlap. Leaving so much off this list but kind of going with movies I enjoy, actually rewatch and not always the best.

1960's: Night of the Living Dead, The Last Man on Earth, Comedy of Terrors     (Honorable Mention: Targets)
1970's: Dawn of the Dead, The Legend of Boggy Creek, Last House on the Left (Honorable Mention: Duel)
1980's: The Thing, The Blob, Monster Squad (Honorable Mention: The Stepfather)
1990's: Exorcist 3,  In The Mouth of Madness, Cure (Honorable Mention: Fire in the Sky)
2000's: The Hills Have Eyes, Pulse, Trick R' Treat, Dawn of the Dead (Honorable Mention: Pontypool)
2010's: Starry Eyes, Tales of Halloween, The Battery (Honorable Mention: Grave Encounters)
2020's: The Empty Man, Pearl, Watcher, (Honorable Mention: The Wolf of Snow Hollow)

Wouldn’t have really thought of Targets as horror (you can make the argument, just wouldn’t have been my inclination) but god DAMN what a banger of a movie.

Love the mention of Watcher, too. That movie deserved way more love and buzz than it got.

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I'm here for Event Horizon and Cloverfield props. Love both of those dearly.

Definitely said this before but IGYP is the only poster, let alone person, who has seen Miracle Mile that I know of. I put it up there with Day After and Threads level Nuclear War Mount Rushmore movie status.

Everything you love about Safdie Bros movies is all right there and I won't rest until all Film Board Bros watch it.

[I Gave You Power]

Aug 13, 2024 20:48:01 GMT -5 feelthedorkness said:

Aug 13, 2024 20:45:46 GMT -5 I Gave You Power said:

I’m gonna do three per decade too:

1950s: House on Haunted Hill, Bucket of Blood, the Mad Magician

1960s: The Cremator, Blood and Black Lace, Psycho

1970s: Halloween, Phantasm, Theatre of Blood

1980s: The Shining, Inferno, The New Kids

1990s: Misery, Event Horizon, Cure

2000s: Saw, Cloverfield, 1408

2010s: I Saw the Devil, The Wailing, Maniac

2020s: Barbarian, Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes, Slaxx

Some great picks on here. Shout out for the 1408 pic. I was in 8th grade and felt my first boob when seeing that in theaters lol

LOL

Genuinely one of my favorite King adaptations. Cusack is so perfect in the role and it genuinely scared and unnerved me more than anything else I’ve ever seen. One the times that song starts on the alarm, fuck, I can feel my heart jump just thinking about it.

Also think Samuel L with “…..it’s just an evil fucking room” is some of the most perfect line delivery ever in a movie.

[I Gave You Power]

Aug 13, 2024 20:52:02 GMT -5 @dogdickrussia said:

I'm here for Event Horizon and Cloverfield props. Love both of those dearly.

Definitely said this before but IGYP is the only poster, let alone person, who has seen Miracle Mile that I know of. I put it up there with Day After and Threads level Nuclear War Mount Rushmore movie status.

Everything you love about Safdie Bros movies is all right there and I won't rest until all Film Board Bros watch it.

Miracle Mile is so GOATed.

[inheritedhell]

I have t seen frontiers or inside in a minute but I liked those.

[jaredfromsubway]

Miracle Mile does indeed rock

[feelthedorkness]

Aug 13, 2024 20:52:02 GMT -5 @dogdickrussia said:

I'm here for Event Horizon and Cloverfield props. Love both of those dearly.

Definitely said this before but IGYP is the only poster, let alone person, who has seen Miracle Mile that I know of. I put it up there with Day After and Threads level Nuclear War Mount Rushmore movie status.

Everything you love about Safdie Bros movies is all right there and I won't rest until all Film Board Bros watch it.

Miracle Mile has been on my list for a while after hearing Kevin Smith rave about it in an interview (the dude is a cornball but I love hearing him talk about non comic book movies).

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Aug 13, 2024 20:50:13 GMT -5 I Gave You Power said:

Aug 13, 2024 19:29:30 GMT -5 @dogdickrussia said:

Horror is a suuuuuper fickle genre and I rarely ever go into any one with expectations of actually being scared or seeing some cinematic masterpiece. I'm doing 3 picks and an honorable mention/wild card recommendation. 
I'm so down for a film thread horror discussion outside of the horror thread because a lot of our tastes do tend of overlap. Leaving so much off this list but kind of going with movies I enjoy, actually rewatch and not always the best.

1960's: Night of the Living Dead, The Last Man on Earth, Comedy of Terrors     (Honorable Mention: Targets)
1970's: Dawn of the Dead, The Legend of Boggy Creek, Last House on the Left (Honorable Mention: Duel)
1980's: The Thing, The Blob, Monster Squad (Honorable Mention: The Stepfather)
1990's: Exorcist 3,  In The Mouth of Madness, Cure (Honorable Mention: Fire in the Sky)
2000's: The Hills Have Eyes, Pulse, Trick R' Treat, Dawn of the Dead (Honorable Mention: Pontypool)
2010's: Starry Eyes, Tales of Halloween, The Battery (Honorable Mention: Grave Encounters)
2020's: The Empty Man, Pearl, Watcher, (Honorable Mention: The Wolf of Snow Hollow)

Wouldn’t have really thought of Targets as horror (you can make the argument, just wouldn’t have been my inclination) but god DAMN what a banger of a movie.

Love the mention of Watcher, too. That movie deserved way more love and buzz than it got.

That's fair. Yeah, I slotted that in as a mention. It's horror adjacent in my mind because of how scary mass shooting events are. They're psychological case studies and don't see why a slasher serial killer like Maniac/Henry Portrait fits but mass shooters are iffy. There are more artsy depictions like Blue Caprice about the DC Sniper but Targets hits on a very visceral weird level that was always uneasy for me, especially for the 60's.

Watcher was super good and Maika forever over here.

[oatmeal]

60's: Rosemary's Baby
70's: The Exorcist/Carrie/Suspira
80's: The Thing
90's: Blair Witch
00's: Saw
10's: The Witch
20's: Pearl

[antipasto]

Starry Eyes is so good

[Aaron]

Aug 13, 2024 20:47:18 GMT -5 I Gave You Power said:

Aug 13, 2024 20:29:46 GMT -5 Aaron said:

Pontypool rocked

Love seeing it mentioned

Really good movie. Creative in a sub-genre of horror where it’s really difficult to be so.

Would this be considered the equivalent of a bottle episode, but just a movie? Not enough of a cinephile to know different terms, but it’s so well executed, and that’s what I’d call it. Super good, gives you the legit creeps, well worth folk’s time. I need to give it a rewatch.

[I Gave You Power]

Aug 13, 2024 20:57:30 GMT -5 @dogdickrussia said:

Aug 13, 2024 20:50:13 GMT -5 I Gave You Power said:

Wouldn’t have really thought of Targets as horror (you can make the argument, just wouldn’t have been my inclination) but god DAMN what a banger of a movie.

Love the mention of Watcher, too. That movie deserved way more love and buzz than it got.

That's fair. Yeah, I slotted that in as a mention. It's horror adjacent in my mind because of how scary mass shooting events are. They're psychological case studies and don't see why a slasher serial killer like Maniac/Henry Portrait fits but mass shooters are iffy. There are more artsy depictions like Blue Caprice about the DC Sniper but Targets hits on a very visceral weird level that was always uneasy for me, especially for the 60's.

Watcher was super good and Maika forever over here.

Honestly yeah if any serial killer movies count as horror then you’d have to include Targets. ESPECIALLY for the time, when what was being depicted didn’t happen in America. Must have been an absolute trip to see that on screen.

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Aug 13, 2024 20:59:16 GMT -5 antipasto said:

Starry Eyes is so good

Alex Essoe rules in it. Feels like a Lynch extended universe.

Again, another example of a dog shit trailer but wildly fun movie that was forgotten that I think the thread would appreciate come spooky season. Comment section actually comes through on the hype.

[I Gave You Power]

Aug 13, 2024 21:05:30 GMT -5 Aaron said:

Aug 13, 2024 20:47:18 GMT -5 I Gave You Power said:

Really good movie. Creative in a sub-genre of horror where it’s really difficult to be so.

Would this be considered the equivalent of a bottle episode, but just a movie? Not enough of a cinephile to know different terms, but it’s so well executed, and that’s what I’d call it. Super good, gives you the legit creeps, well worth folk’s time. I need to give it a rewatch.

So yes absolutely; though in movie parlance you’d call it a chamber film, where everything takes place in one small location.

I was looking at it in terms of being super creative as a zombie movie but TBH you’re 100% right that it’s creative in terms of being a chamber movie too. I can’t think of another where so much of the narrative is off-screen and delivered via radio broadcast like that.

[ed]

My two favorite decades of horror are the 80s and the 2010s.
I think my millennial ass might give the edge to the 2010s.

60s: night of the living dead
70s: the exorcist
80s: the thing
90s: ringu
00: 28 days later
10s: hereditary
20s: barbarian

no shame in my normie list

[Ian MacFlai]

wonderful lists everyone - just watched Clive Barker's Lord of Illusion the other night and while it certainly doesn't qualify as best of the '90s, it features an absolutely horrific (in a good way) and probably one of the best horror villain performances of the '90s by Daniel von Bargen (aka George's boss from Seinfeld)

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Aug 13, 2024 21:09:40 GMT -5 I Gave You Power said:

Aug 13, 2024 21:05:30 GMT -5 Aaron said:

Would this be considered the equivalent of a bottle episode, but just a movie? Not enough of a cinephile to know different terms, but it’s so well executed, and that’s what I’d call it. Super good, gives you the legit creeps, well worth folk’s time. I need to give it a rewatch.

So yes absolutely; though in movie parlance you’d call it a chamber film, where everything takes place in one small location.

I was looking at it in terms of being super creative as a zombie movie but TBH you’re 100% right that it’s creative in terms of being a chamber movie too. I can’t think of another where so much of the narrative is off-screen and delivered via radio broadcast like that.

Nailed it. It has rewatch value for little tidbits with the set and utilize that aspect soooo well.

You should watch Talk Radio by Oliver Stone with Eric Bogosian if you want that radio narrative. It was originally a stage play with Bogosian based on a real life story. You'd dig it but don't look into it anymore than that. Super up your alley.

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Aug 13, 2024 21:11:29 GMT -5 ed said:

My two favorite decades of horror are the 80s and the 2010s.
I think my millennial ass might give the edge to the 2010s.

60s: night of the living dead
70s: the exorcist
80s: the thing
90s: ringu
00: 28 days later
10s: hereditary
20s: barbarian

no shame in my normie list

90's/2000's were weird as hell and totally hit or miss. That's just a GOAT list not normie.

[crobssssss]

Just got back from Kneecap. Loved it. Had no idea what to expect besides reviews in this thread and a big poster I saw before Rap World last week. So much fun.