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get shooky this 'tober for the 2026 shrieksltronic ultimate link fest LAZY_TITLE ya fav fearsome content while ampi and fleetmouse argue about stuff like if jacobs ladder was actually ever good. who will be the zilty queen of screams?! |
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its controversial but was jacobs ladder actually good? |
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I saw ot twice at the cinema at the time, I thought it was good then. I'd have to watch it again. I think I used to have the Maurice Jarre soundtrack. I will revisit it all for the spooky season. |
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it is flattering but also hilarious that on your death-bed I will be your last word your last thought |
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i think jacob's ladder is not bad but not great, maybe i'd like it more now or maybe i'd be very bored by it watch takashi ito's instead or |
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nice |
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yeah im gonna watch it again and see what i think. after liking it a lot years ago i rewatched it in 2020 and found it a bit annoying... BUT i was a little distracted trying to make a paper mache skeleton at the time |
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do you have pictures of the paper mache skelle |
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ill try and find it |
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these are cool. have some tea and a scone and enjoy these britty tv shorts |
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i watched jacobs ladder today. enjoyable atmos and scenery and most of it looks pretty handsome. some interesting moments and mood but wouldnt go as far as calling it tension. typical 'is he crazy or is there more to it' sort of plot pace with developments that slowly and predictably paint the picture. body horror flashups and shudderhead moments would have been more fresh in 1990 but still fine. there are problems tho. its overly soppy in a way that you could probably only achieve by taking the damaged veteran cliches and artlessly mixing that with ghost all along/was all a dream routines. culkin as the angel kid looks wack specially whenever paired up with tim robbins corny facial dramatics. lot of horrors can have bad choices for child actors but the way he looks is so out of place with the overall visual tone. tim robbins is annoying thruout and helps to undermine the main character who is given a pretty flat script and doesnt really have much range or expand as a character. the whole thing serves itself like a quest to discover personal truths while opening up into larger conspiracy. it fails to be an adequate thriller on both scores cos the personal discovery bit is just 'ya feel bad after war and ur sons dead' most of which we pick up early on. the military conspiracy promised to unfold as the movie plays out but actually doesnt and the whole thing is just explained in a dialogue drop in the last 15 min by a character we hardly get to know. i think if it didnt have the fleshy stuff and a few twitchy francis bacon bits it wouldnt have been popular |
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Yeah I don't care for jacob's ladder. Saw a great idea for a space horror b movie double feature, Lifeforce and Event Horizon. of BBC ghost stories is handy |
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bit low effort everyone knows about those ghost stories and it says christmas right there on the tin but ill let it go can i get your thoughts on a grave encounters then session 9 double feat?? might raise an eyebrow but i think it could just about work out |
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im also trying to think of a creep 2004 into (???) double feature combo but cant fill the blank yet. maybe the descent but doesnt feel quite right... |
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it's handy cause there was a youtube crackdown and I haven't seen them all very yes on that double feature, i'd end with Grave Encounters to lighten up, the ending goes a bit silly |
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how about Smile, which smacks of 2004 |
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thats totally wrong about smile but thats a whole thing and i wanna talk to you about that in a lil while. for now i was thinking about grave encounters --> cropsey --> session 9 as the perfect asylum themed evening (i disagree about ending with g encounters because its lighter. gotta go from light to heavy in most cases imo) |
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wouldn't you agree Smile is The Grudge (2004) taking hits off the Candyman (1992) bong? Looking forward to your Nietzschean-tragic justification for ending on the downbeat nihilist 9. |
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ill get back to u about this |
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what you guys thinkin for games? you hearing good things about silver pines? |
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Communion 1989 x The Mothman Prophecies 2002 Not sure of order, I could go either way I expect you'd like the vibe of these AMPI |
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we watched Communion last year for halloween, i didn’t think it was very appropriate however it fucking rules and i loved it. |
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Communion was the second feature, the first feature was Swallowed, which was all right but we were expecting body horror and it’s more like a torture flick. It’s got semi-consensual fisting out of necessity though. |
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it is an edge case but it is scary in the beginning and Walken is having so much fun Mothman is more serious. Both have an odd new age vibe I don't love torture. I've come to appreciate Martyrs by thinking about it over the years and never seeing it again. the ending plays in my head free of charge. |
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Martyrs is one of the most offensively stupid films I've ever seen. Not quite as evil as like, a Gaspar Noé film, but still it's like a metalhead trying to make something deep and spiritual to justify scenes of young women being tortured. I wouldn't hate it so much if it was honest about being exploitation trash. |
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Yeah all of that is valid, I wouldn't recommend it or see it again. However I was discussing it and mulling it over recently and it can be read as a criticism of the strain of religion and culture that sees extreme suffering as a way to enlightenment, rather than the royal road to simple dehumanization and degradation. The madame offing herself after the flayed girl tells her "there's nothing" (I imagine she says this) is the film ending because it's also pointless. Not saying this reading justifies the film. |
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I saw it like 16 years ago my take is prob fairly obvious and maybe corresponds to the metalhead deepness you mentioned. just call me maynard |
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i wanna check communion but i dont put aliens and space in my halloween very much. mothman? i remember that being a bit of a dull psych thriller type ive never tried to rewatch. so about smile...you say its got grudge and candyman bonghits. please explain more about this. saw smile the year it was out and i hated it. it felt incredibly tiktok post covid girlbrain and i dont know what ur talking about with candy man and grudge or even 2004. |
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think ill try smile again this weekend to try and pick up what u mean. sure its a horror about infectious curse but from what i remember it doesnt really go far into that concept and instead dwells in the crazy/not crazy framing until the story decides to be about confronting inner trauma stuff. loads of horrors do that and it doesnt seem to specifically line up with candyman or grudge. creep even less so |
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nothing nihilist about this its just better to end on the stronger movie. u could argue for ending on a lighter note with the more action/shock oriented grave encounters but the ending is a little flat and session 9 leaves a lingering taste that feels better suited to the conclusion of a spooky evening |
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i had no interest in smile whatsoever but describing it as tiktok post covid girlbrain made me want to see it |
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Do a Smile x Candyman double, obvs end with Candyman, parallels will be glaring. Smile is much more Candyman than Grudge now that I think of it, though the mechanics of the supernatural are superficially more Grudge. Session 9 is stronger with a stronger ending but my god it's dark. I've seen it twice don't need 3x For alien scares try Alien Abduction, which is like tapping into someone's nightmares, full of dream logic. |
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do you like smile |
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I liked the preview kinda But I’m sure the movie would Scare the shit outta me Ep |
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I'd give it 3 to 3.5 on 5 but that could go up on second watch. Discussing it is getting me interested. Esp. the Rose Cotter - Helen Lyle parallels. This 3 star letterboxd review is perfect: "This is so mid-2000’s style horror that it’s almost camp. No plot, no logic, just jump scares and the most thinly veiled messaging about trauma EVER! And you just know this movie is gonna EAT at 12 year old childrens’ birthday sleepovers across the globe" |
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ykno that review really does capture it fleetmouse at the sleepover. 'ok so rotty t says its a 95 and someone says it absolutely slays' *fleetmouse looks uneasy for a moment* '..i mean absolutely EATS' *fleetmouse looks more relaxed and giggles 'ok lets watch it' later when brushing teeth together and giggling ampi keeps doing the smile face at fleet in the mirror and hes like OMG STOP and runs back to the bedroom and they throw popcorn at eachother and have a pillow fight |
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ok you're getting a little too worked up let's move on. How about a Nazi Zombie Triple Header? Dead Snow, a horror comedy for the warmup Outpost for the filling Frankenstein's Army for the freaky creature design finale |
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Wolfslice bump (skeleton remix) |
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hm i have to think about that. no idea about dead snow for some reason ive never given it a shot |
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If you've seen Outpost and Frankenstein's Army try Dead Snow with Frostbite 2006. Both horror comedy and silly good fun. |
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FA is prob better solo. It's too powerful. |
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Coldcuts work, enjoyed the meat |
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its controversial but was donnie darko actually good? |
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it's a bit I am 14 and this is deep but it's well produced. It's like the ST:TNG writers tried to script a Buffy episode minus Buffy set in Dawson's Creek, kinda. Not a Halloween movie. |
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guys im kinda agreeing with fleetmouse here. what do yall think about it? |
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a perfect B movie, endlessly rewatchable, and delightfully sexist |
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