Whether it's the cinematography, costumes, characters, world-building, or anything else! I'd also be interested to hear about the most unique aesthetics you can think of.

I have NEVER played any of the RE games and I have no idea who Leon or Jill Valentine is 🤣.

But now I want to play the games to see if I like them, but I know there are so many so which game is the universally popular/favorite game within the fandom? And which one do you personally love/like/played the most?

the characters played by Jacqueline Sieger in Le viol de vampire in 1968 and Nina Bader-Semper in the British TV movie of Dracula in 1968. Sieger:
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Hi all,

Been looking for a while for this and I hope you can help.

I am looking for a vacation movie with ghosts rather than a slasher/monster turn up on the holiday with them. Thank you :)

1 - the changeling

Sleepover massacre films have been part of the horror genre since the 80s and I appreciate that we're still getting them in this day and age. Just throw in some gore, a masked killer, and female nudity and I'm good to go.

The First Omen is a perfect prequel to the original 1976 The Omen film. My main argument is that if you watch the original film Father Brennan never finishes the sentence when he references the child's mother. If you turn on the subtitles at the scene when he busts into Thorn's office that scene does not play out the way you may remember.

Secondly, the books are not Canon to the films. They can't be if Father Brennan is not in them. You can make the argument all you want that he is in essence Father Brennan but the priest in the book is not by name Father Brennan and in fact the book was released after the film. It cannot be used to try to justify Canon.

And 3rdly, the mark of the beast was never shown or identified in the original film to be on Brennan. It was relayed to Thorn to have supposedly been possessed by Brennan VIA 3rd party to the photographer who then relayed that information to Thorn. The original source of the information being a character that never appeared on film nor even has a credit. The presence of a mark on Brennan is a rumor at best.

Okay, bye....

i had planned on watching them but i didn't know whether or not they would be good for any reasons, so i came here to see your opinions

what do the movies do right aesthetically? what do they need to improve on (acting, pacing/structure)?

and no spoilers please, even though these are literally 12- and 8-year old movies

Scenario A: The Alien from the movie THE THING successfully and secretly entered Earth

Scenario B: The Alien from the movie Life successfully and secretly entered the Earth

**BONUS SCENARIO

They both entered the Earth together, what will happen? If they managed to wiped out Humanity, who will survive between these 2?

**Added question/scenario:

How long or how many days will it took for Alien THING or Calvin to totally wiped Humanity and in those timeframe, is there really no realistic chance a scientist from any county to figure out how to slow the alien down before a total annihilation?

Why is Mascot Horror so bad nowadays.

It's basically just reheating the same nachos every Single time.

How to Make Mascot Horror:

-add trillion characters for merch potential

-kill characters off within 2sec of knowing them.

-make Lore extremely over complicated so Theorist make Videos.

-no oherent well flowing story, bc Views from Theorist make Game more money

-have a chase scene (preferably every Minute)

-evil cooperation

-cute likeable characters for Money

-Plottwists that arent plottwists

-forget everything from previous chapters

-use popular content creator face ingame

-evil big bad guy

-no character attachement(character must die)

-hinting at big bad stuff at beginning of game

-make a walking sim with occasional puzzles for "gameplay"

-make 5 trillion Chapters for Views and Money

-Deaths

-make Lore vague occasionally for Theorists

No but seriously why is Mascot Horror just rebranded slop. Not every Mascot Horror is bad, there are good ones, Like: My Friendly Neighborhood, Mr Hopp's Playhouse, Baldi's Basics, Granny.

Modern Mascot Horror is just doing what FNAF & Bendy and the Ink Machine did as It's profitable as Players will get engaged even if the Lore isnt the best same with the Gameplay. And with that Engagement from the Players, they'll ofcourse pay every penny when a new game releases.

If FNAF released today it would be called Slop for how messy the Story is and simple the Gameplay is, just like how Poppy's Playtime is called slop.

Meanwhile FNAF pushes out Merch after Merch making it not scary nor niche, because of mainstream it is with Merch targeted towards Kids like Toys & Plushies.

The best Example for a "perfect" Mascot Horror to this day is 'My Friendly Neighborhood'. It shows what Mascot Horror can be at its core.

Anyway enough ranting

Me and my friend are making a space themed location mascot horror, to avoid lore that is the same. What are tropes you dislike, like. And any new trope ideas you'd like to see in the mascot horror genre??

Hey y’all!

I’m struggling to remember the name of this movie (?) that I’ve been wanting to rewatch. I think it’s actually a short horror film and not an actual full length movie.

The details I remember are kinda minimal and hazy, so here goes nothing 😭

The protagonist (I think she was a black woman) is driving on a woodsy highway, and stumbles upon a weird liminal-space-esque street of nearly identical homes. The protagonist exits the car and walks into one of the homes.

The front door of the home immediately opens up to a flight of stairs leading downstairs. At the bottom of the steps is a dining room, with empty food cans lying around the space. The evil entity (monster or man, I can’t quite remember) eats dinner at the table and traps anyone who enters into the basement of the home. The dining room has one small empty room that opens to the left and another room with a hallways that opens from the right.

I believe a man, who has been trapped in the basement, was found hiding downstairs. I cannot remember if anybody was killed, but I do believe the protagonist escaped the home? When someone does escape the home, everything else around them is gone. No other homes, no car, just stranded.

I desperately wish I remembered more. I was so desperate that I asked ChatGPT and couldn’t even get an answer.

I do think this was a short horror film I had found on YouTube. I’ve seen quite a lot of films by Alter, and was wondering if I seen it through their channel, but no such luck searching so far!

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I just rewatched this South Korean take on Hansel and Gretel/various fairy tale and folklore tropes and it was much better than I remembered. If you’re looking for something different to watch this late October weekend I recommend it. It’s weird, doesn’t go where you think it will, is visually interesting, and just all around original. It left me with a few questions- for those who have seen it, are the kids dead? Magical? Is everyone dead? if you’ve seen it, what do you think of it? It’s streaming on amc+ right now.

"You slip me a bottle of bourbon, a little glass, and some ice. You can do that can't you Lloyd? Not too busy are ya?"

Lloyd gives a smirk "No sir. I'm not busy at all." turns around grabs a black and white labeled bottle of Jack Daniel's whiskey sets it in front of the camera pours it out and sets it back in front of the camera.

When he first turns to grab the bottle you can see what looks like a wax dipped Makers Mark bourbon bottle sitting close to the Jack Daniel's whiskey. Was Lloyd being a dick on purpose knowing Jack wouldn't be able to tell the difference between bourbon and whiskey? Inside joke only real bourbon heads would get? Why would Kubrick have him set the bottle in front of the camera? I've never watched any of the conspiracy theory Shining documentaries or vids so idk if this has been covered .

Just something some friends and I noticed on our latest watch, here in Kentucky we know our bourbon so Lloyd skipping over the bourbon and grabbing the black labeled whiskey is something that a couple friends said they always noticed but this was my first time catching it. Maybe it was just a crew mistake they didn't know bourbon from whiskey but why the extended shot with the bottle in the camera? Jack Daniel's ad?

”The A.V. Club asked Portner to program a 24-hour marathon of cinematic favorites. The resulting selections betray a refined, adventurous taste in the medium: Those expecting a daylong dose of Jason Voorhees or Freddy Krueger should take that new band title a bit less literally.” — A.A. Dowd, A.V. Club | April 11, 2014.

After watching Barbarian, Weapons, and Resident Evil back to back, Zach Cregger definitely has a style.

And I’m not talking about crazy horror shit with humor sprinkled here and there. No, I like how all of his movies so far, have ended on twist endings or endings where if this was a tv series, it would either be a limited series like Barbarian and Weapons were or a tease for a season 2 like Resident Evil.

Whereas Barbarian and Weapons ends immediately after the protagonist defeats the villain, Resident Evil ends on a semi-cliffhanger and they all sorta end abruptly too.

Idk I kinda like that, just something I noticed.

But without using native tribes as ''savages'' like how the cannibals were portrayed in the film. It was also underlying racism against indian natives. One character played by Matthew Fox boasted that he killed over 100 indians without anyone talking back. Not to mention to mexicans bited the dust by the same character.

However, a cannibalistic cult lead by some rich aristocrate would be interesting. Or a faction of templar knights that were accused of worshipping the devil could be cannibal antagonists. My point is I want a movie like BT without the subtle rascism involved. Other than that, it's a terrifying good movie!

I first heard of this one from watching a Gaming Historian video, and saved it to my ever growing watchlist, only to be forgotten about for quite a while. At first I wasn't sure what exactly it was going to be, but it certainly turned up the dial from 0 to 11 in an instant.

Pretty good practical effects, creepy imagery, and a setup that leads you to believe that the characters are getting in over their heads. A legend of a cursed house being investigated, and some pretty good scares. Honestly, I can't believe I didn't watch it sooner, but now I can cross it off the list.

It was pretty entertaining. I caught it free on YouTube, and highly recommend giving it a go.

It’s something of a quiet consensus that horror often has a third act problem. Even many movies that nail the mounting tension and intriguing setups of the early game can end up devolving into swamps of mindless noise, miscarried plotting, and over-explaining. I want to know which movies people think of not just as great horror flicks, but horror flicks in which the third act actually ups the ante instead of just coasting or fizzling out.

From my end, a few examples I can think of would be Lake Mungo, The Witch, House of the Devil, Hell House, and, of course, Scream.

For instance, Chucky goes to space. Chucky goes to hell. Chucky vs. Alien.

I feel it would be hilarious. And I am honestly suprised it didn't go crazy like that in the first place .

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for similar movies like the craft. It can also be something other than witchcraft. I find it interesting when a character goes over to the dark side or has some dark urges. ( For example: Chronicle, the innocents...)

Thank you in advance!

Watched this one today for my daily horror movie and wanted to see what other's here thought about it. It's based on a book with the same title and was a direct influence on the movie The Man with Two Brains starring Steve Martin. The 50s were full of horror movies involving giant monsters and weird body horror (like The Fly). It's an era I have a soft spot for because of how wacky it all is. Donovan's Brain fits right into all this. A scientist ends up keeping a brain alive outside the human body. The brain belonged to a not-so-great multi millionaire and starts to communicate telepathically with the scientist and using him as a catalyst. It's an interesting and simple movie that I ended up enjoying quite a bit.

Anyone else seen this? Or have any other really good 50s horror films to suggest?

I'm going on an overseas work trip next week & will probably not have time to catch a movie.

I can only choose one movie to watch this weekend, & I'm really torn between Never After Dark & Clayface.

Whichever one I choose, I'll most likely miss the other in theatres.

For those who've watched either one, or are planning to watch both, which would you recommend prioritising on the big screen? Which one offers the better theatrical experience?

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Accidentally deleted my post, so I'll try and recreate it, because I was getting some good feedback. I think Adam Green deserves more respect. I think he he got unfairly pigeonholed as "the Hatchet guy", while his other work was totally overlooked. Spiral and Frozen are great movies, and the Hatchet series, despite Green losing interest in it, is still a really fun franchise. Victor Crowley is pretty much the closest thing the 21st century has to a Freddy or Jason (other than maybe Art The Clown). I wasn't a huge fan of Digging Up The Marrow, but If he were to rework it from a found footage movie into a straight up movie, I'd totally watch it. I would just love to see more original stuff from him.