It’s good to see this thread has a revival, if only a temporary one. But alas this is our month let’s enjoy it.
TCM has a ton of good classic Horror lined up this month, and on top of that Vincent Price is the star of the month. I completely love Vincent Price and it is a mix of his many Horror titles along with his other roles.
Horror games are welcome here, I’ve been playing my fair share lately. Outlast, Half-Life, and my annual speed runs in RE.
I’ve seen Season One of AHS and enjoyed it, currently catching up on Supernatural so I am not confused by this new season.
I enjoyed Condemed 2 a lot, I can replay that one over the first far more often. The Cabin section is just wonderful.
I loved the condemned games. The first one had a creepier atmosphere imo, while the second one does have better combat mechanics. I had the combat down pretty well in the 2 and during the junk men, I was parrying their attacks even though you had to run around and kill them in unorthodox ways. The punch combos were pretty fun. When I got to the
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bear lodge, and the bear came running at me, I actually tried to throw a pipe and taser it in the face. When it was still running at me, I thought, “Well fuck I’m dead.”
Saw John Carpenter’s The Fog last night, I really enjoyed it. Never seen the remake so I cant compare.
Heard good things about S3 of AHS, I watched Season 1 but somehow didn’t finish it, skipped Season 2 despite hearing good reviews, think I’m going to give S3 a watch, good thing each season is a standalone story… Right?
The best thing you could do is not see the remake. It is…uh, horrible to say the least.
Dead of Night is about to come on TCM, one of the best and classic anthology style films you will ever see. The story with the Ventriloquist is truly terrifying.
Season 1 was amazing. Season 2 had some excellent moments, but the plot was all the fuck over the place. Season 3 seems to be reigning it back in tightly, and is off to a strong start.
As for Supernatural, it’s really surprising me how the show has managed to stay good.
Put about an hour into Outlast. It’s got the usual boo scares (as expected thanks to that Slenderman game) but it’s reasonably well done. I do like it. Activating that generator was tense as hell and I like and hate how that dude seemingly just hung around and had a pretty random A.I. path.
I’m up to the point where I’m in the asylum and will continue playing it later.
Man, I saw that one when I was about 11 on TNT’s Monstervision with Joe Bob Briggs. At first I was annoyed that Joe Bob riffed about anything but the movie at first but I was young and didn’t really get his humor at first. But that was a great experience. The night was just perfect to watch The Fog and Joe Bob is one of the all time great horror hosts.
As you guys know I liked the idea of horror more than horror films since 99.9% of horror films are too corny, campy, poorly written, and fake for me to actually be scared…that and I’ve never enjoyed the concept of watching horny dumb teenagers get killed by a monster for 2 hours :sleep:
Films that scared me:
The Thing
Alien
The Shining (and this is only on repeat viewing after watching Rob Ager’s analysis which made me aware of the house changing geometry and the native American motif, as well as frame count)
Jaws
Candyman
The Exorcist
Psycho
The Omen
That being said on a whim I watched The Cabin in the Woods earlier tonight and fucking loved it. I was expecting a spoof of the horror genre but it goes 2 steps ahead of being a spoof and actually deconstructs the genre and then asks the audience why they are so eager to watch a horror film that breaks convention while simultaneously indicting us with being voyeurs who on a primal level enjoy the classic horror 3 act structure. It’s one of those rare films that demands to be dissected, analyzed, and debated over with other film geeks :tup:
Anyone have any psychological horror recommendations for netflix? I might watch Kill List now.
Anybody ever see that one 80’s horror movie “Uninvited”? Poisonous cat monster-in-regular catsuit. So bad it’s good.
Hey, does anyone remember an old movie about rats killing and eating people left and right (seems to be the theme of a TON of 80’s horror movies)…but this one ends weird. The main characters being rescued from certain death by someone in an exterminator suit. When they ask the identity of their savior, he takes off his faceplate…to reveal its a giant humanoid rat. Scream, roll credits.
Hahahaha! Yeah, that’s it!! The makeup is better than I remember. Shame they left it STILL kinda ambiguous. Those guys might have been humanity’s allies in the fight against the killer rats. Baring it’s teeth and lunging into the camera would’ve cemented the ending’s nature. As it is, an epilogue is possible.
Dude: Wow… you TOTALLY spazzed when you saw these guys were humanoid rats.
Chick: Yeah…but after what we went through, can you blame me?
Dude: Heh, guess not. You go on ahead, I’ll catch up.
Ratman: sign language Is she going to be okay?
Dude: Yeah, you just startled her, that’s all.
Ratman: signing Tell me about it! Anyway, good luck to you. I’ve got to get back. It’s almost time for my martial arts students’ daily training session.
Dude: Martial arts?
Ratman: signing Yes. In this war against the rats, we’ve chosen as a side project to train 4 elite exterminators in armed and unarmed combat. Turtles who became humanoid much the way my people have…they are ideal because they don’t need the protection our suits give us.
Dude: Wait…do you mean-? You know what? Never mind. Good luck on your end of the war.
Getting towards the end (I think?) of Outlast. I just got out of the sewers and trying to get out out of the prison. I wouldn’t really call this a Survival Horror game. There’s no puzzles either. The game breaks down to: activate object, avoid dude, get to the exit. And there’s a simplicity to that that works but it would have been better if the enemy A.I. was more advanced and followed you more. In both occasions where I have to flip switches and turn valves I found a spot I could run to and the dude will not follow me there. A lot of obvious scares on display but it does a good job at it.
I’ve always wanted to see a psychological horror game and this has elements of that but too often it becomes a screamer game. I feel like I paid a little too much for it at $20. But it has great controls, sound (despite an obvious stock scream in there), and graphics. If you want a good interactive horror film I’d pick it up if it was on sale. OR if you know a pussy bitch who’s afraid of his own shadow
Case in point:
This is a good game to gift to said pussy bitch. Then show them Guinea Pig and laugh at them.
*Edit: unfortunately my PC BSOD on me and I had to restart. And the auto-save system fucked up and I lost a good 20-30 minutes of progress…
is kill list on Netflix? it’s pretty good with a twist. Most definitely check it out. Also not really psychological but Pontypool was extremely good. Inside is really good along with excision.
