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It’s the time of year for [Spooks] and pumpkin spice lattes
joshofalltrades
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I’m tired of losing sleep because of scary things happening in politics. I’m ready to lose sleep because of scary things happening in movies/books/games.
So how about a thread where we talk about scary media we like/hate?
My wife and I just watched Hereditary the other night and hoo doggy those are some quality spooks. It’s the scariest movie I’ve ever seen, bar none. If you haven’t seen it, don’t look up anything about it and just go watch it. It’s streaming on Prime in America. At some point I want to watch Ari’s other feature length film, Midsommar. It’s also streaming on Prime. The guy is making quite a name for himself!
Another one to go see if you haven’t already is It Follows. That one has a fun premise and some real good spooks but also kind of falls apart a bit when you think about it. I think it’s supposed to be highly metaphorical though, and the nice thing about horror is not everything needs to make sense.
As far as games, I’ve been saving Darkwood for a while now. It’s tradition in my house to play a scary game on my backlog through to completion in the month of October. I’m excited to dig into it!
So come on, forums. Try and scare me, without posting any pictures of Donald Trump’s horrible visage.
So how about a thread where we talk about scary media we like/hate?
My wife and I just watched Hereditary the other night and hoo doggy those are some quality spooks. It’s the scariest movie I’ve ever seen, bar none. If you haven’t seen it, don’t look up anything about it and just go watch it. It’s streaming on Prime in America. At some point I want to watch Ari’s other feature length film, Midsommar. It’s also streaming on Prime. The guy is making quite a name for himself!
Another one to go see if you haven’t already is It Follows. That one has a fun premise and some real good spooks but also kind of falls apart a bit when you think about it. I think it’s supposed to be highly metaphorical though, and the nice thing about horror is not everything needs to make sense.
As far as games, I’ve been saving Darkwood for a while now. It’s tradition in my house to play a scary game on my backlog through to completion in the month of October. I’m excited to dig into it!
So come on, forums. Try and scare me, without posting any pictures of Donald Trump’s horrible visage.
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Just completed it a week ago. Is good.
Definitely #1 on my list of hiding under beds simulators.
And #3 on the exasperated sighing "oh, would you just fuck off, would you?" at the screen simulators list
Celeste [Switch] - She'll be wrestling with inner demons when she comes...
Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age [Switch] - Sit down and watch our game play itself
So good. I haven't seen a good haunted house series in a long time
Cabin in the Woods is my favorite horror movie.
If I want to freak my wife out I’ll just mention
Does it every time
As for movies, I rewatched Dark Skies the other day and it's a solid horror/thriller that still holds up.
In that regard, Get Out is one of the finest horror films I’ve ever watched
I'm trying to figure out my viewing list for this winter season. Definitely The Hitcher, which I haven't seen in years - it's basically a slasher movie, but Rutger Hauer's John Ryder isn't some faceless, silent killer aux Jason et Michael Myers. He's charismatic, evil, and apparently determined to ruin the life of this poor kid who gave him a ride. Great film.
I've got a Blu-Ray of Robert Wise's The Haunting (1963) I've yet to watch, so will give that a spin. I've never seen it but it has a great reputation and Scorsese has it on his list of the top 11 scariest movies of all time so I doubt I'll be disappointed.
Mark Gatiss made an excellent 3-part documentary series for the BBC about 6 years ago called the History of Horror and single episode follow up called Horror Europa. Really worth a watch and all on YouTube (see spoiler box).
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I'm really enjoying Lovecraft Country (which is probably being discussed in the Streaming thread, but I'm like 3,000 posts behind on that one), and am looking forward to the remainder of the season with the hopes of more to come.
For horror themed games, Dead Space 1 and 2 for sure. Half-Life 2 and the Episodes are solid, and honestly, Half-Life: Alyx has some super tense bits as well. I really should finish it at some point.
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She's huge into Halloween but hasn't seen a lot of horror / scary films so each year I get to have a little fun showing her some for the first time.
The Thing
Addams Family 1 and 2
Beetlejuice
What We Do In The Shadows
Constantine
Pitch Black
They Live
Hocus Pocus
The Terminator
Interview With A Vampire sometimes
The Mummy sometimes
And the Halloween Heist episodes of Brooklyn 99
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Nononononono
A fantastic mix of horror and tragedy.
Understand it took years to make? Which would explain the continuity which is zero, but maybe not the weird acting. Like when the one girl goes off by herself, the two guys hear a scream and crash, then just sort of mosey over to her room and don't care she's gone?
I know it's a classic, but wow.
Can see why Ash went into hunting human monsters. A lot easier to shoot.
Did it take years? I thought they all stayed on location with like no modern conveniences and got sick, hurt, and mad at each other- I can’t imagine those conditions lasting long
I could certainly be wrong; thought I had read that on IMDB. Wiki just talks about the injuries and misery.
There was that too, but they had to stop filming for months at a time to raise more money to continue shooting.
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Most recent horror movie to scare me was The Autopsy of Jane Doe. I really liked it because the characters were not stupid. They had good, logical reasons to not be frightened by the wierd stuff at first, but when it became clear something supernatural was going on, they said let's get the fuck out of here. Made the scary stuff more real to me.
The clown doll and closet scene in Poltergeist can fuck right off. To this day I don't like dolls facing me when I go to sleep.
I don't remember the circumstances but I saw this scene from the 80s blob movie as a kid. It left me with a phobia of drains that lasted farther into adulthood than I like to admit.
****WARNING, GORE****
Hands down the scariest movie I've ever scene was Fire in the Sky. That one left me completely absorbed by terror and I avoided going outside after dark for a long while after it.
The cassette was wrapped in tape that repeatedly said "DO NOT LET [my brother's name] WATCH". Apparently it freaked him out for weeks after watching it.
The Blob '58 has probably the greatest theme tune of any horror movie ever made ever.
I didn't think Midsommar was quite as scary as Hereditary was, but it's still real good and there are some absolutely gut-wrenching moments in it.
The Witch and The Lighthouse are two films that tickled similar parts of my brain and may be worth watching if you enjoyed Aster's stuff.
In terms of games, I don't think anything's ever going to top Silent Hill 2 for spookiness for me. The atmosphere, the characters, the soundtrack... they all just combine to create something that far exceeds the sum of its parts, and it's an absolute crying shame that it seems to be stuck in Konami's vault currently.
Really quite good movie about a bunch of blokes who go off on a guys weekend where they learn about dangers of alcoholism, make crafts, and show off their field medicine skills.
If it hasn't been mentioned / you haven't seen it check out the babysitter on netflix
It Comes at Night
The Blackcoat's Daughter
The Endless
Session 9
Green Room
The Invitation
Fright Night
Re-Animator
We Are Still Here
The Vampire Lovers
Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama
My favorites out of these have been The Endless and Re-Animator. Neither is particularly scary, but Re-Animator is delightfully gory.
For games, our DM is planning a spooky one-off session that I'm excited for. He mentioned steampunk and a sanity system, so I think it might be Call of Cthulhu? For video games, Inmost looks like a haunted Gameboy game, I think I'll give that a spin.
Ah see you’re watching horror films and not climate change documentaries
Re-anaimator has some of the best scenery chewing ever
I see your Blob and raise you one Green Slime
And I don’t want to watch a scary movie alone
Halp
You can't give someone a pirate ship in one game, and then take it back in the next game. It's rude.
Don't worry, a xenomorph is probably in a duct above you, you're not alone.
Have to check that out, wonder if the grainyness adds to the atmosphere.
Less scary but more singing, I watched 'O, Brother' on Amazon and it looked really good. Not 4k over Roku but could almost smell the Dapper Dan.
Oh don’t worry it’s there with you
Always watching, waiting
First on the list was Robert Wise's The Haunting (1963). I really enjoyed this. It's a simple ghost story about an anthropologist who wants to prove that ghosts exist so invites a mentally ill woman (and others) to a supposedly haunted manor. The main event is Julie Harris's performance as a woman who is desperate for something to actually happen to her, but the supporting cast (including a young Russ Tamblyn and the original Miss Moneypenny, Lois Maxwell) are fun, the sets are great and there's some excellent kinetic camerawork. There's a section near the end of the movie that had to have inspired Sam Raimi.
Great film. Not scary.
Next on the agenda was The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) on Disney Plus - specifically the second half, a twenty-five minute retelling of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow with songs and narration by Bing Crosby. This is a Hallowe'en classic that I've watched every year since I was a kid. It's funny, got great tunes and its Headless Horseman is legit terrifying. If you have twenty-five minutes then do yourself a favour and give it a watch.
Great cartoon. Sorta scary.
And finally we watched Nic Roeg's Don't Look Now (1973) starring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie based on Daphne du Maurier's short story. This is a strange film - the title makes it sound like B-movie schlock, and a certain element of the conclusion is b-movie schlock but really what it is is a drama, mostly set in beautiful Venice, about grieving parents trying to get over the death of their daughter - complicated when Christie runs into a blind psychic. The movie is notorious for its opening, its ending, and the love scene between Christie and Sutherland which was rumoured to be unsimulated (it's not). The most terrifying thing about this film is the standards of health and safety on Italian building sites in the 1970s (spoiler! There wasn't any!).
Amazing film! Not scary. Unsettling and kind of weird though.
Next up is Robert Eggers' The Lighthouse (2019), which I know isn't strictly speaking a horror movie but between a fresh baby and Coronavirus I never got around to seeing it and the VVitch is one of my favourite films so looking forward to it.
There’s some things that require some suspension of disbelief and some really gross scenes but it did in fact spook