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2 hours ago, Marty Sugar said:

and then another year the one where Willem Dafoe's wife is a witch or something uses a pair of scissors to cut up her own vagina. Shit like that.

Yeah, Antichrist is a hard watch.  One of the most un-erotic erotic movies I've sat and watched in order to check the proverbial block.

One day, we may have a "I watched this to check the block" discussion.  It will probably sound like an AA meeting.

"Hello, my name is JT."

"Hello, JT."

"I sat through Cannibal Holocaust because I am dumb and wanted to enter discussion about the movie from a common frame of reference."

That being said, I'm not really in favor of narrowing the scope of the content of the submissions for Halloween Havoc, but I do think the participants should be able to decide what they wish to review. 

If someone suggests August Underground and no one wants to touch it with a ten foot pole, let the person who picked the film review it and explain why he / she felt it would be a good suggestion.

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20 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Everytime I see Asuka I think of Audition and it's wonderful.

Oh, it's a brilliant movie but I only have the spiritual buffer to handle it a limited number of times during a year.

Miike does have this rather disturbing preference for needles as instruments of torture though.  Audition, Ichi The Killer, and his Masters Of Horror entry, Imprint, are three known instances where he does that and there are probably more.

I would not be able to make that sort of analysis without "checking the block."

7 hours ago, Roman said:

How did you like A Serbian Film?

You used "like" in reference to A Serbian Film.  That is fucking hilarious.

In a sentence, "I didn't," however I think it is a movie that should be endured if you want to appreciate the various social and political criticism found within the movie.  Hence, the importance of checking the block.

If you can watch it all the way though with out pressing Pause and looking for something to break, you're a better person than I am.

 

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This my last night on graveyard, thank God.

I will continue the Made For TV Movies Horror That Defined And Warped My Childhood vibe that Piranesi started with the discussion about Gargoyles (1972).

Tonight... er..... this morning, I will be watching:

 

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On ‎10‎/‎7‎/‎2017 at 2:18 AM, Curt McGirt said:

The Funhouse has something that is very Tobe Hooper: a theme of being trapped in a bewildering maze. It runs throughout his films, just like Wes Craven always has booby traps in his films. Some people just had their thing, and that was his. 

For as much as The Hills Have Eyes is a brutal offspring of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and all of its baser more primal instincts, it’s Tourist Trap that is the spiritual descendant/sibling of the original TCM in terms of capturing that whole surreal “kids stumbling into a nightmarish pocket of hell on Earth in the middle of nowhere” vibe. The look of Davey even brings to mind Leatherface. Beyond that, I like to think that the setting of Slausen’s Lost Desert Oasis and Davey’s vaudevillainous antics inspired Hooper to pay it forward with Funhouse and then eventually the overall design and feel of ‘Namland in TCM 2. Slausen’s Oasis was certainly its own death trap, what with Old West displays perfectly capable of dispatching victims. Last but not least, there is a definite similarity between the endings.

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Both Tourist Trap and TCM 2 feature protagonists that have been driven utterly insane by the final shot, even identifying with their antagonists. While Stretch is obviously going stark raving made with the chainsaw, which shows she has at the very least been changed forever, if Molly ever manages to get off that road and back to reality, she will be locked up and have the key thrown away after telling people the mannequins are actually her missing friends.

 

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54 minutes ago, FluffSnackwell said:

For as much as The Hills Have Eyes is a brutal offspring of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and all of its baser more primal instincts, it’s Tourist Trap that is the spiritual descendant/sibling of the original TCM in terms of capturing that whole surreal “kids stumbling into a nightmarish pocket of hell on Earth in the middle of nowhere” vibe. The look of Davey even brings to mind Leatherface. Beyond that, I like to think that the setting of Slausen’s Lost Desert Oasis and Davey’s vaudevillainous antics inspired Hooper to pay it forward with Funhouse and then eventually the overall design and feel of ‘Namland in TCM 2. Slausen’s Oasis was certainly its own death trap, what with Old West displays perfectly capable of dispatching victims. Last but not least, there is a definite similarity between the endings.

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Both feature protagonists that have been driven utterly insane by the final shot, even identifying with their antagonists.

 

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Yeah, that's more commonly known in some horror hipster circles as The Carrie Ending since it is one of the first movies where the concept of the final girl being traumatized to the point of lunacy shows up in the genre.

 

 

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Shit now I feel like I need to rank Chucky movies 

7. Child's Play 3

6. Child's Play 

5. Child's Play 2

4. Cult of Chucky 

3. Bride of Chucky 

2. Curse of Chucky 

1. Seed of Chucky 

 

1 and 2 could really go either way depending on my mood.

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11 hours ago, Marty Sugar said:

Movies like that are basically why I stopped being part of the Halloween Havoc thing because I was routinely getting saddled with stuff I would never want to watch in a million years...usually revolving around mutilated genitalia.

 

8 hours ago, Marty Sugar said:

I got assigned Tokyo Gore Police one year, and then another year the one where Willem Dafoe's wife is a witch or something uses a pair of scissors to cut up her own vagina. Shit like that. There was another gross one I'm totally blocking out, IIRC.

For the record, you did choose Tokyo Gore Police over... Something I don't recall. 

But you did randomly get the goriest film a couple times I think.

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Oh yeah, without a doubt. I actually figured it went back much further than that.

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That is the whole concept in general of the of the final girl (back before there even were final girls) shown to have been traumatized in the very last shot. Of course, the ending to the original Friday the 13th is the one that most directly lifts the Carrie ending. In both cases young women wake up from what is shown to be fever dreams. Molly really is driving down the road with the mannequins in the jeep. As mad as she is, the real fun comes in imagining how she'd explain the whole deal, if she ever makes it back to reality.

 

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Oh, man.  Tourist Trap is one of my favorite horror movies,

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so I am VERY acquainted with the ending. :)  It is one of my favorites and the final imagery haunts me to this very day.  I still can't watch it without cringing a little.  It is great!

 

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It's been a long time since I've seen Tokyo Gore Police but I remember it being way too over the top to be shaken by its violence. Most if not all the kills in the Hatchet franchise are presented in the same way.  I mean the kills in Tokyo Gore Police were more graphic than the ones in Hatchet but I don't remember any of the violence looking remotely plausible or realistic enough to make me wince. Like I said, it's been a while though. The only kill that stuck in my head is the one where the lady that's a crocodile below the waist eats men.

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12 hours ago, J.T. said:

If you can watch it all the way though with out pressing Pause and looking for something to break, you're a better person than I am.

I did watch it all the way through without pausing, but I think that, if anything, it makes me a worse person than you are. Or not worse, really, but it's slightly disturbing nonetheless.

I watched Irréversible at the theatre and I almost walked out of that, but that's the closest I ever got while watching a movie. When I watched Earthlings, however, I did pause it and go out to play with the dogs and hug them for a good long time; and never went back to it. But I think that doesn't count, it being a documentary.

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13 hours ago, J.T. said:

This my last night on graveyard, thank God.

I will continue the Made For TV Movies Horror That Defined And Warped My Childhood vibe that Piranesi started with the discussion about Gargoyles (1972).

Tonight... er..... this morning, I will be watching:

 

fantastically bad t.v. movie! David Paymer! Jenny from Beverly Hills Cop! Library Cop from Seinfeld! K Callan who is STILL WORKING TODAY!! Joan Bennett from motherfucking SCARLET STREET!!!!! Barry Corbin!!!

 

SLIM FRICKING PICKENS!!!

Notable in the opening segment kills is that the girl is Amanda Wiss, the evil girlfriend from BETTER OFF DEAD/Tina from Nightmare on Elm St.

 

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I'm still recovering from the massive amount of caffeine I imbibed at the Art's All-Nite Horrorfest. Vodka, several cups of coffee, a 5-Hour Energy, and a bunch of smokes over the course of a night will geek you the fuck out. 

Anyway! Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter was a blast. The absurdity of the plot and characters was well underlined in front of an audience. Halloween III was well-received and I had forgotten a lot of the craziness that goes on in that one. The Last House on Dead End Street I tried to sleep through but that was impossible. Imagine a splatter version of a '70s porn and you basically have that one. They should have shown The Driller Killer instead, which I told the gal that booked the night. Eaten Alive was awesome though very long in the tooth, with Robert Englund being a total fucking creep in it -- all these films seemed to have some pretty degenerate sexual themes, honestly. Tarantino stole the "my name's Buck and I like to fuck" line in Kill Bill 1 from this one. Neville Brand was great as the backwoods psycho, walking around with a wooden leg and eating his BC powders to get himself back to rights. It kind of reminded me of Maniac; there was even a mannequin in his abode. Nightmare Sisters was the last one but I had to pass. Anyone know if it's any good? 

BTW, the booker, Jessie Seitz, made an indie horror flick called Devotion you might want to check out. I still haven't seen it even though it's played the Art twice now but I've heard good things, you might want to look into it. I think this is the trailer, but I could be wrong

EDIT: Oh, and the director of Last House? Wrote and directed the thing while on a meth binge. That says a lot too. There were six walk-outs. 

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Just watched Observance.  Private detective takes up residence in a house that looks like it's condemned so that he can run surveillance on the blonde who lives across the street.  Really good, slow burn and a lot of deliberate gaps in the backstory.  Expect to have a lot of unanswered questions when it's over.

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I caught Episode 3 of Chanel Zero: No-End House last night on demand. 

Here is my man, Albert Berg, laying down it straight and plain.

His enthusiasm is infectious!

The look in his eye on the vidcap is quite spooky, though.

It has taken a while, but the show is gradually drawing several parallels between the itself and the creepypasta it is loosely based on.

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I am starting to notice some subtle references to drug addiction that could be nods to the creepypasta serving as an allegory to drug abuse / heroin addiction.

1) Jules willingly surrenders her memories to "the egg" in order to purge painful experiences from her mind.

2) Surrendering her memories to the egg is taking a physical and mental toll on Jules.  Her posture is poor and she seems to be in a fugue state even during dangerous circumstances

3) Seth continues to extoll the virtues of the house being more real than reality even though he knows it is all a deception.  if the house were a drug, Seth would be its pusher..

4) The Father's voracious appetite for Margot's memories and the lengths it will go to (including murder) in order to continue feeding.  The Father is also becoming more agitated and more violent the longer he remains "unfed."

5) The starving memory creature being gaunt and disheveled and appearing as if it were going through the symptoms of withdrawal.

6) The oddly blissful smiles of the other constructs of the room.

 

 

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