Saw Resolution at the 2012 Tribecca film festival, it’s a fucking masterpiece. if you guys liked The Cabin in the Woods then you’ll love it, it’s on Netflix now :tup:
Watch it so we can get a discussion going.
Got a list of horror movies I’ve managed to catch up on. Resolution is one of the ones that’s sticking with me the most. Even though Cabin In the Woods is different tonally, I felt that Resolution[details=Spoiler] made you feel more active as the supernatural entity, than Cabin did: which felt more like a footnote of a genre breakdown. I would have been one of the people happy with the good ending in Resolution. [/details]
Started reading some of the SCP logs, due to the live action short videos the Amnesia: Dark Descent devs have been posting for SOMA (which looks fucking crazy with Space Horror). Some of this shit is terribly written, but ones like the creature whose face you couldn’t look at, are crazy. In the age of digital cameras, I’m surprised nobody has made these things live action shorts.
Outlast started off well, then just went downhill. It was more about trial and error hiding. Not enough random scares, after you get deeper into the asylum. And it was waaaaaaay too short. I beat it in one fucking night
Well, I found my save file in Outlast and I think I’m right at the end (I took a peak at the Wiki and read a bit of the plot). Big complaint would be a lack of variety. I think I’ve done the old ‘collect item/turn valve, avoid dude, escape’ at least 6-7 times. The game is about 5 hours long and that’s pretty bad.
You know what would have been cool? A part where you have to lure one of those giant dudes out into a trap, like a room that’s a gas chamber or a puddle of electrified water. That would have made it too action-y but it would have been something different.
The Cabin in the Woods is more than just a breakdown of the horror genre, it openly asks whether characters in horror films make the choices they do willfully or because the plot requires them to in order to progress. it doesn’t just stop there though, it spoofs the horror genre’s negative stereotypes while also giving the audience the “different and unpredictable” film they say they want. In doing so forces us to ask ourselves how badly we want an off the beaten path type of film , and suggests that maybe we’re in denial about craving the genre formulas, cliches, and tropes that we complain about on the internet.
Resolution is similar to Cabin insofar as going beyond a simple commentary on the nature of genres themselves, and going at least 1 step further by exploring the audience’s expectations in a Hitchcockian way. That’s where the similarities end though, as Resolution is much more concerned with being a traditional film than winking at its audience and breaking the 4th wall than Cabin is, although there is a ton of that. Resolution is a Coen brothers-esque genre bending mishmash that aims to be a buddy pic, a horror pic, a psychological thriller, a comedy, and a meta commentary on the Voyerustic relationship between film and audience like Rear Window all at the same time.
Whether anyone enjoyed either film is totally subjective, but either way the fact is both films are very ambitious.
Beat Outlast. Pretty good. From 1-10 I’d give it an 8 or 8.5. Fun game, good Halloween material. Wouldn’t really call it a survival horror but more of an interactive horror film if that makes any sense. Buy it on sale.
I hate random scares. Any asshole can do that (again, referencing Slender). What’s really scary is having to conserve ammo, being forced to avoid enemies, and being in an environment you really don’t want to be in. And Outlast nails that last part. As I said, the gameplay is too tedious and this becomes noticeable mid-way through. It’s $20 and free on PS+ so I don’t think anyone should bitch too much about it.
The end is a disappointment though.
the end was actually kinda neat I thought. Rushed a little, but whatever.
When your camera gets all smashed, and you still gotta use it to see in the dark, was a neat idea.
When I said I wanted more scares, I meant it though. Don’t care how it’s been done by others, etc. When you open one of the first doors and there is a dude hanging behind it, that was neat. Or when you try to squeeze through a bookcase, and the Piggy guy grabs ya, that was nice, but you NEVER have anythign happen to you ever again in a book case.
I just found a lot of the time, you would try to sneak from one room to another, get killed, then just have to reload and do it again until u dont die. A bit of randomness would have been nice
Those deformed twins with their awful penises were fucked though lol
And its still better than Machine for Pigs
I assume the A.I. is more random and/or thorough in the harder difficulties which I may give a shot at later.
Both of you guys will jizz when you see The Intruder trailer.
The old film with the one Raimi brothers and a cameo by Bruce Campbell? Was a pretty great slasher film.
I was referring to @sovi3t and @louiscipher who said they wanted a real survival horror game that made you conserve ammo and have a random AI. And I meant Intruder the game lol.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=92910126
Saw the first ep of AHS: Coven… not really feeling it… I’ll give it a few more episodes to hook me
Elijah Wood starring remake of Maniac was added to Netflix, along with the less than impressive Paranormal Activity 4 if that is your bag. I was adding Arrow up and saw them, really wanted to see the Maniac remake and compare the two.
The original was legit disturbing, so hopefully this exudes the same kind of atmosphere.
I have never seen a single episode before, of any season, but my GF made me watch the first episode. It has my interest, but it needs to blow me away. I ain’t digging Precious and Potato the Witches, yet Kathy Bates is channeling Misery and Elizabeth Bathory, so I’m down.
Also: black minotaurs.
And just like that another potentially great horror title is ignored, yet everyone knows what Outlast is.
They do? All I hear about is Amnesia. I am waiting on some Greenlight titles to get up, and Interstellar Marines to like…be a thing.
I was referring to @sovi3t and @louiscipher stating the complaints they had with Outlast but completely ignoring the game I linked which has all the things they said they wished Outlast did 
Also why mention Interstellar Marines here? I just watched the kickstarter video it’s an FPS not horror game lol.
Lone Survivor is probably the best survival horror game I’ve played this generation. Too bad very few others did. I’m tight that I bought it on steam yet Vita/PS3 gets the director’s cut.
Interstellar has/had Doom Vibes, FPS Horror is a thing and a genre that works well when done right. But I think it is taking a different direction now. Land sharks are cool.
Also you are trying to get the attention of two people no one wants anything to do with, save yourself the trouble Zoo.