I have the day off from teaching, my stuff is with my advisor for review and editing and wont be back until wednesday at the earliest, it snowed a bunch, and now I am going to hike to the grocery store to pick up some things
gonna make a pumpkin alfredo sauce and then make a cake
then play LoTRO or something IDK
someone gift me skyrim on xbox 360 because I sold my copy back like a dummy
i especially loved how it highlighted and then played off of the tropes of slasher flicks
i hope we get more of this and less torture porn
From the imdb trivia page:
"In the shot showing *spoilered*, you can briefly see a Tank, Witch, Boomer and a Hunter, four of the special infected from the 'Left 4 Dead' game series. Their cameo was included to coincide with a planned tie-in expansion pack for the games where players would have to fight their way through the woods, cabin and facility from the movie. Unfortunately, the tie-in was canceled when MGM's financial problems hit."
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If you can find a screencap online, the white board listing the bets also has a few hilarious entries.
So far I've gotten those glasses with the beer, a Courvosier gas can flask with Courvosier, some rocks glasses with a bottle of Bailey's, and 10 oz. of Kahlua coffee with a bottle of Kahlua.
i especially loved how it highlighted and then played off of the tropes of slasher flicks
i hope we get more of this and less torture porn
@Gooey it made me remember that I don't actually not like horror, I just don't like the way most horror is done.
yes yes a thousand times yes
i loved the little comedic bits and the nods to various monsters:
obvious hellraiser sphere guy, IT clown, the two girls from the shining
and i really loved the:
way they explained all the tropes of slasher movies! the little bit of electricity that made the girl drop the knife, the "we should stick together, no matter what.....no wait, we should split up!" thing, the obvious OBVIOUS "this dude is totally going to die" in the van (whenever a character makes a big speech and makes you feel better they're going to die!), all of it
Chapter 2 of "Winky Awkwardly Meets Cute Neighbor"
Cute neighbor girl from yesterday sees Winky approaching from down the block and stops to hold open gate for him.
Cute Girl: Hi.
Winky: Hi, thanks.
Cute Girl: I'm Cute Girl, I just moved here in October.
Winky: I'm Winky, I moved here in....I don't remember when I moved here.
Feeble hand shake occurs, then Winky continues to move up stairs.
Winky: I live up in 844A
Cute Girl: Oh. Well, hi.
Winky: Hi
Winky goes upstairs and posts about this on the internet.
Did she smell nice?
A trap is for fish: when you've got the fish, you can forget the trap. A snare is for rabbits: when you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words are for meaning: when you've got the meaning, you can forget the words.
i personally do not mind saw or hostel. i mean, i think that it's stupid for them to be enormous, sprawling franchises- there's no novelty. but i liked a movie or two of each franchise. i generally dig the disgusting or deranged type of horror movies because i do not like jump-out-scary-thrills type stuff.
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i especially loved how it highlighted and then played off of the tropes of slasher flicks
i hope we get more of this and less torture porn
@Gooey it made me remember that I don't actually not like horror, I just don't like the way most horror is done.
yes yes a thousand times yes
i loved the little comedic bits and the nods to various monsters:
obvious hellraiser sphere guy, IT clown, the two girls from the shining
and i really loved the:
way they explained all the tropes of slasher movies! the little bit of electricity that made the girl drop the knife, the "we should stick together, no matter what.....no wait, we should split up!" thing, the obvious OBVIOUS "this dude is totally going to die" in the van (whenever a character makes a big speech and makes you feel better they're going to die!), all of it
it was really really good
So it was like Scream without all the exposition explaining the trope?
i especially loved how it highlighted and then played off of the tropes of slasher flicks
i hope we get more of this and less torture porn
@Gooey it made me remember that I don't actually not like horror, I just don't like the way most horror is done.
yes yes a thousand times yes
i loved the little comedic bits and the nods to various monsters:
obvious hellraiser sphere guy, IT clown, the two girls from the shining
and i really loved the:
way they explained all the tropes of slasher movies! the little bit of electricity that made the girl drop the knife, the "we should stick together, no matter what.....no wait, we should split up!" thing, the obvious OBVIOUS "this dude is totally going to die" in the van (whenever a character makes a big speech and makes you feel better they're going to die!), all of it
it was really really good
So it was like Scream without all the exposition explaining the trope?
It's kind of one level up from Scream. Scream is still a slasher movie, it's just self-aware about what it's doing, like Bruce Willis cocking an eyebrow and going "here we go again" in a later Die Hard movie. Cabin starts off as a movie about teenagers being killed in the forest but turns into a different kind of story about midway through.
As good as cabin in the woods was, not too many of those movies can really be made before the next natural phase kicks in
only so many times can postmodernists chuckle at themselves, no matter how well executed
Cabin in the Woods 2
is about the Ancient Ones sacrificing groups of themselves to appease the Ancienter Ones and all of the tropes are fabricated according to what you would expect from an Ancient One society, and at the end when the Ancienter Ones awaken it turns out they're US!
Has there ever been a real Lovecraftian horror movie? Not a "cthulu mythos" one in the style of the writers who came after Lovecraft himself. A horror movie that draws its terror from mankind's tiny, helpless and temporary place in an unimaginally vast and uncaring spacetime. All that stuff with the "monsters" is just fluff around the edges.
I'm not a fan of torture porn nor jack-in-the-box style scares really
slasher movie was the last thing like that I saw I guess (and I liked it because at the end when the killer runs off and everybody's all oh he won't make it don't worry the heroine goes yeah, right and goes after the killer to hunt him down.
a better horror movie would be something like the bothersome man. Not scary, no gore, but a world that is deeply, deeply disturbing.
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do you want public or private feedback? I read your doc
public if it's good feedback, private if it's bad :P
Srsly tho public is fine
this sounds like a concept summary for a piece.
there are no descriptors, I don't know what any of the characters look like, where they are sitting, what they are doing with their hands, eyes, etc.
why not write a story about Amelia falling in love with Jonah? Or about Jonah himself?
You know what would be a great short story? Amelia explaining to Jonah how she found out about her dad and how her perspective changed to enable her to treat Jonah differently than everyone else.
and not in transcript format.
I mean you basically wrote some dialog, which is only part of a story.
The justification for the transcript format was (1) I wanted to write it not as narrative but as an artifact, like this is perhaps the record of an event that actually happened. The goal was to make something vaguely Borges-esque (like with Pierre Menard, where the whole thing is a fake lit review). And (2) I wanted it to be in the form of a classical dialectic. I was purposefully going out of my way to leave out any specifics at all, except explicitly the date (to indicate modern times), the name of the show (to indicate it's a transcript from a talk show), and the museum where the exhibit was (to indicate that this takes place in America). The idea is that I wanted to leave out any extraneous details so that the story generalizes; like I explicitly didn't want to name what kind of humanitarian or social causes he was behind because I want the reader to automatically substitute their favorite social cause there. I also definitely want it to stay in the form of an unresolved argument.
I'm not sure how to make this all read better, though.
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Has there ever been a real Lovecraftian horror movie? Not a "cthulu mythos" one in the style of the writers who came after Lovecraft himself. A horror movie that draws its terror from mankind's tiny, helpless and temporary place in an unimaginally vast and uncaring spacetime. All that stuff with the "monsters" is just fluff around the edges.
maybe some kubrick movies hinted at that, but i can't think of anything major that directly dealt with the existentialist sort of horror
"and the morning stars I have seen
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
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Has there ever been a real Lovecraftian horror movie? Not a "cthulu mythos" one in the style of the writers who came after Lovecraft himself. A horror movie that draws its terror from mankind's tiny, helpless and temporary place in an unimaginally vast and uncaring spacetime. All that stuff with the "monsters" is just fluff around the edges.
Has there ever been a real Lovecraftian horror movie? Not a "cthulu mythos" one in the style of the writers who came after Lovecraft himself. A horror movie that draws its terror from mankind's tiny, helpless and temporary place in an unimaginally vast and uncaring spacetime. All that stuff with the "monsters" is just fluff around the edges.
I don't know how well you would be able to convey that in a movie. It would certainly be a challenge.
A lot of the lovecraftian horror takes place inside the minds of the characters, which is an easier thing to portray in books than in movies.
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i personally do not mind saw or hostel. i mean, i think that it's stupid for them to be enormous, sprawling franchises- there's no novelty. but i liked a movie or two of each franchise. i generally dig the disgusting or deranged type of horror movies because i do not like jump-out-scary-thrills type stuff.
Those are definitely the overwhelmingly dominant flavors in horror right now, yeah. But you can have movies full of disturbing or horrifying imagery that isn't just human bodies being debased and torn apart and people crying. The Shining is a good example of that, or The Fly. The movies Let the Right One In and Let Me In are good recent examples of the other kind of horror you can do, where it's more about building dread (a fear of what happens next) as the full extent of a horrific situation is revealed.
Has there ever been a real Lovecraftian horror movie? Not a "cthulu mythos" one in the style of the writers who came after Lovecraft himself. A horror movie that draws its terror from mankind's tiny, helpless and temporary place in an unimaginally vast and uncaring spacetime. All that stuff with the "monsters" is just fluff around the edges.
The problem is that this would be a boring version of Indiana Jones followed by weird squishing sounds and the protagonist dying off screen.
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Not sure about the movie but the short story took place inside of a grocery store and was mostly about how people dealt with being stuck in a grocery store while Lovecraftian monsters lurked beyond the veil of the mist.
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Has there ever been a real Lovecraftian horror movie? Not a "cthulu mythos" one in the style of the writers who came after Lovecraft himself. A horror movie that draws its terror from mankind's tiny, helpless and temporary place in an unimaginally vast and uncaring spacetime. All that stuff with the "monsters" is just fluff around the edges.
maybe some kubrick movies hinted at that, but i can't think of anything major that directly dealt with the existentialist sort of horror
All horror movies today are "found footage" ... Chernobyl Diaries ... [REC] ... Paranormal Activity. Even the more original Insidious is about a guy who finds footage in his attic.
I kind of liked the concept behind The Cube - a very industrialist, "corporate" sort of horror, like how early Resident Evil games before they went full Japanese and shit hinted at a greater, faceless machination
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"and the morning stars I have seen
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Has there ever been a real Lovecraftian horror movie? Not a "cthulu mythos" one in the style of the writers who came after Lovecraft himself. A horror movie that draws its terror from mankind's tiny, helpless and temporary place in an unimaginally vast and uncaring spacetime. All that stuff with the "monsters" is just fluff around the edges.
maybe some kubrick movies hinted at that, but i can't think of anything major that directly dealt with the existentialist sort of horror
Melancholia?
God the concept behind that movie was great
even the cinematography for the trailer was gorgeous. i didn't follow through though, was it good?
"and the morning stars I have seen
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Has there ever been a real Lovecraftian horror movie? Not a "cthulu mythos" one in the style of the writers who came after Lovecraft himself. A horror movie that draws its terror from mankind's tiny, helpless and temporary place in an unimaginally vast and uncaring spacetime. All that stuff with the "monsters" is just fluff around the edges.
maybe some kubrick movies hinted at that, but i can't think of anything major that directly dealt with the existentialist sort of horror
Melancholia?
sort of like it is The Bothersome Man, although not really set in the place we live in.
Has there ever been a real Lovecraftian horror movie? Not a "cthulu mythos" one in the style of the writers who came after Lovecraft himself. A horror movie that draws its terror from mankind's tiny, helpless and temporary place in an unimaginally vast and uncaring spacetime. All that stuff with the "monsters" is just fluff around the edges.
The problem is that this would be a boring version of Indiana Jones followed by weird squishing sounds and the protagonist dying off screen.
i especially loved how it highlighted and then played off of the tropes of slasher flicks
i hope we get more of this and less torture porn
@Gooey it made me remember that I don't actually not like horror, I just don't like the way most horror is done.
yes yes a thousand times yes
i loved the little comedic bits and the nods to various monsters:
obvious hellraiser sphere guy, IT clown, the two girls from the shining
and i really loved the:
way they explained all the tropes of slasher movies! the little bit of electricity that made the girl drop the knife, the "we should stick together, no matter what.....no wait, we should split up!" thing, the obvious OBVIOUS "this dude is totally going to die" in the van (whenever a character makes a big speech and makes you feel better they're going to die!), all of it
it was really really good
So it was like Scream without all the exposition explaining the trope?
It's kind of one level up from Scream. Scream is still a slasher movie, it's just self-aware about what it's doing, like Bruce Willis cocking an eyebrow and going "here we go again" in a later Die Hard movie. Cabin starts off as a movie about teenagers being killed in the forest but turns into a different kind of story about midway through.
yeah, it doesn't hit you over the head with it like scream, but it is plainly obvious what it's doing if you're in-tune with the tropes of slasher movies
jacob is right though, about halfway through the story shifts and it becomes a different kind of movie.
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If you can find a screencap online, the white board listing the bets also has a few hilarious entries.
Alcoholic gift sets.
So far I've gotten those glasses with the beer, a Courvosier gas can flask with Courvosier, some rocks glasses with a bottle of Bailey's, and 10 oz. of Kahlua coffee with a bottle of Kahlua.
yes yes a thousand times yes
i loved the little comedic bits and the nods to various monsters:
and i really loved the:
it was really really good
Jack Daniels, Crown Royal, and SoCo are very generous with their sets
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Did she smell nice?
only so many times can postmodernists chuckle at themselves, no matter how well executed
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
yup
So it was like Scream without all the exposition explaining the trope?
a justin bieber concert 2 blocks from me
i see
@So It Goes
It's kind of one level up from Scream. Scream is still a slasher movie, it's just self-aware about what it's doing, like Bruce Willis cocking an eyebrow and going "here we go again" in a later Die Hard movie. Cabin starts off as a movie about teenagers being killed in the forest but turns into a different kind of story about midway through.
One more class to go today, unless there are some surprise classes today.
They like to do that.
Sneaky gits.
totally outside of my conscious control.
Cabin in the Woods 2
slasher movie was the last thing like that I saw I guess (and I liked it because at the end when the killer runs off and everybody's all oh he won't make it don't worry the heroine goes yeah, right and goes after the killer to hunt him down.
a better horror movie would be something like the bothersome man. Not scary, no gore, but a world that is deeply, deeply disturbing.
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@So It Goes I see where you're coming from
The justification for the transcript format was (1) I wanted to write it not as narrative but as an artifact, like this is perhaps the record of an event that actually happened. The goal was to make something vaguely Borges-esque (like with Pierre Menard, where the whole thing is a fake lit review). And (2) I wanted it to be in the form of a classical dialectic. I was purposefully going out of my way to leave out any specifics at all, except explicitly the date (to indicate modern times), the name of the show (to indicate it's a transcript from a talk show), and the museum where the exhibit was (to indicate that this takes place in America). The idea is that I wanted to leave out any extraneous details so that the story generalizes; like I explicitly didn't want to name what kind of humanitarian or social causes he was behind because I want the reader to automatically substitute their favorite social cause there. I also definitely want it to stay in the form of an unresolved argument.
I'm not sure how to make this all read better, though.
you got tix 4 me bro?
maybe some kubrick movies hinted at that, but i can't think of anything major that directly dealt with the existentialist sort of horror
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
The adaptation of King's The Mist?
I don't know how well you would be able to convey that in a movie. It would certainly be a challenge.
A lot of the lovecraftian horror takes place inside the minds of the characters, which is an easier thing to portray in books than in movies.
Those are definitely the overwhelmingly dominant flavors in horror right now, yeah. But you can have movies full of disturbing or horrifying imagery that isn't just human bodies being debased and torn apart and people crying. The Shining is a good example of that, or The Fly. The movies Let the Right One In and Let Me In are good recent examples of the other kind of horror you can do, where it's more about building dread (a fear of what happens next) as the full extent of a horrific situation is revealed.
The problem is that this would be a boring version of Indiana Jones followed by weird squishing sounds and the protagonist dying off screen.
WHERE WHERE LINK IT TO ME
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
God the concept behind that movie was great
even the cinematography for the trailer was gorgeous. i didn't follow through though, was it good?
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
sort of like it is The Bothersome Man, although not really set in the place we live in.
WHASSUUUUUUP
This is the best Lovecraftian horror (NSFW):
EDIT: Seriously watch it, I know what the preview image looks like.
yeah, it doesn't hit you over the head with it like scream, but it is plainly obvious what it's doing if you're in-tune with the tropes of slasher movies
jacob is right though, about halfway through the story shifts and it becomes a different kind of movie.
and it is fantastic