Welcome to Eltingville was literally /co/ and /v/ in a nutshell and I love it for that.
>>80406574
Don't you mean /co/ and /tg/?
Why is horror mixed in with all this nerd shit?
I like the Eltingville Club comics and that pilot, but thank god [AS] picked Venture Bros instead
Also, have this
https://youtu.be/XbsDvGtTRWU
>>80406574
4 gregs?
>>80406805
Horror can be nerd too.
Horror comics, trash movies and stuff
>>80406805
Horror is nerd shit.
>>80406574
/co/ was so triggered by the last issue of the Eltingville comic, I loved it
>>80406903
>>80406961
It's not though. It's for normal teenagers and sometimes adults. You can have a specific person who is a nerd for horror but that doesn't make the genre nerdy. Football nerds exist, is football nerdy?
>>80406812
>Adult Swim passed on Eltingville so it could greenlight the Venture Bros
Gosh... I guess it was for the best.
>>80406999
The con one?
>>80406812
I'd say it would have been a great Scifi original series, but if they picked it up everyone would say it was too good for Scifi, and that would pretty much be correct.
>>80407001
After the 80s slasher explosion, maybe
>>80407046
Yeah
>>80406814
It's more like KC Green's Anime Club.
I don't know which came first but I'd be pissed if I were him.
>>80406805
Yeah, I never got that. I guess being into horror movies is nerdy but it's not really a fandom on the level of comic books or science fiction
>>80407001
Nice try, Gabe.
>>80407084
What happened?
>>80407120
>but it's not really a fandom
Horror cons are a thing
>>80407120
Horror nerds can be obsessive.
Come to think of it I don't know where they congregate on 4chan, they were probably scared off of /tv/ by shitposters.
>>80407084
Someone wanna storytime it? Sounds like it either rings true or is very baity if people got upset.
https://youtu.be/yoxMiZxN-F0
>>80406779
It's basically any of the hobby boards on 4chan, the pilot only makes a big point of Sci Fi, comics, fantasy and horror, but they talk about anime, gaming, all kinds of nerd shit. They're a little stuck in the 90's but they're into all sorts of media.
>>80407185
You can spot them in John Carpenter related threads.Childs was the Thing
>>80407185
I assume /x/ would've been the standard horror board at some point.
>>80407089
Eltingville is at least a decade older than Anime Club.
>>80407185
>Come to think of it I don't know where they congregate on 4chan
Used to be /x/ but from what I understand that board got kind of shitty in the last couple years. Some /x/ poster had a synchtybe channel set up with some bad horror movies and horror anthology shows like Tales From the Crypt and Are You Afraid of the Dark
>>80407120
Going to see the latest horror movie is typical normie behaviour. Having an extensive knowledge of horror movies, looking for rare/obscure shit and comparing creators, keeping horror memorabilia, watching foreign horror trilogies? Makes you a fucking geek like the rest of us.
Gabe from the office is regularly made fun of for his horror obsession
>>80407150
It was an "epilogue" type issue, where X years have passed, and most the Eltingville guys grew up and moved on, except for Bill, who became even more neckbeardy and deranged, and basically got the shit kicked out of him.
>>80407208
I don't have it on my laptop but I bought the hardcover when it came out a few weeks ago.
/Co/ had a vocal handful of shitposters in any storytime threads who were reacting with outrage that Dorkin had the audacity to point out that sometimes fandom can be destructive and insular. It was either semi clever trolling or total shitheads who didn't realize they were the exact people the comic satirized.
>>80407185
>>80407120
>>80406805
It's more of an old-school nerd thing. Weaboo stuff has taken its place in the forefront, I think.
>>80407332
Yeah, I've read it.
I mean, what happened like, why did it made /co/ triggered?
>>80407345
Fandom outside of calmly discussing shared interests with close friends is typically cancerous.
This includes discussing things you like with anonymous assholes on the internet.
>>80407332
They didn't exactly "move on," one of the neat things about it was that they all stayed true to their obsessions and made successful careers out of them (again, excluding Bill, whose career is not successful).
The sting of course is that they do it for selfish, warped reasons. Josh wants to become an editor for DC so he can establish his fan fiction as cannon, Pete wants to work on slasher films so he can ogle/screw desperate actresses, and Bill only wants to curate people's collections so he can read/outright steal their stuff.
>>80407386
Most horror fans are over 30 and grew up when slasher flicks were cool.
I wonder if there'll be a resurgence in 20 years with kids raised on foud footage shit?
>>80407457
It's hard to make something new with horror movies, most of it is now cliche.
People don't get scared nowadays, someone would have to come with something really fucked up.
>>80407120
>>80407001
Look at James Rolfe and tell me he isn't a nerd.
Horror is nerd schlock, deal with it
>>80407785
>>80407312
Seriously these. While, yes, normal people do watch horror movies, historically, it's always been tied with scifi and fantasy as schlock.
>>80407250
I don't remember which character was childs but its the directors word that Kurt Russell wasn't a thing.
>>80407933
Childs was Keith David
>>80406805
The "hardcore" and "normie/casual" thing is as prominent in the horror genre as it is in fantasy, sci-fi, capes, etc.
>>80407001
>he thinks horror isn't nerdy
the only people who don't think horror is nerdy are goths and metalheads, and to everyone else they are also nerds
>its normal for teens and adults
teens and adults watch mainstream horror films the same way they all watch the avengers.....doesn't mean they're actually into it
I've always wanted to dive deep into the horror genre, but I never know where to look beyond the basics
>>80407001
>Football nerds exist, is football nerdy?
Yes. Football nerds are fucking losers.
>>80408230
Try Hammer Films especially the Dracula and Frankenstein series
Christopher Lee as Dracula and Peter Cushing as Doctor Frankenstein
>>80408230
Watch John Carpenter and Sam Raimi's old stuff for great horror and pure trash.
Make sure to watch Body Bags, by John Carpenter and other horror dudes who are also famous when it comes to horror.
And the first 3 Scream movies, because they're 90s fun
>>80408500
Almost forgot, watch The Fly (the 50s and the 80s one) and Re-Animator
>>80408230
The video nasties (http://www.hysteria-lives.co.uk/hysterialives/Hysteria/slasher_nasties_4.html) are probably the easiest enough place to start if you want to dip your toes in exploitation and the underground.
>>80408525
And the Sleepway Camp, that ending creeps me out
>>80408539
Oh, and Troma (the films the company itself makes are almost always better than the ones they merely distribute). Usually black comedies, though there's a serious release here and there, like Combat Shock.
And there's Brain Damage Films, which is the poor man's Troma, as hard as that may be to believe.
>>80408291
> Hammer films
> not going all the way back and starting with Universal
Lugosi > Lee
>>80408539
>>80408500
>>80408291
Thanks paterfamilias.
http://video.theloop.ca/watch/celebutard-nation/52816964001
>>80407001
>>80406903
good horror is nerd shit, """""""""horror""""""""" is normie-chad tier
>>80409003
Anon said " beyond the basics" I assumed basics included Universal
>>80407785
not saying based brad jones
I'm slowly building a collection of origional video nasty vhs's I'm an insufferable horror nerd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PoKWKqFE_M
>>80408230
if you like atmosphere, early to mid argento, if you like atmosphere and gore fulci
>>80408230
Look up Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments and pick and choose stuff that interests you and then dive deeper.
>>80406779
>>80406574
>>80407408
because /co/ can get triggered by a pin dropping on the ground
>>80407245
They barely touch videogames. I think I remember someone having a Sega Genesis? They were definitely into more early-90s/80s-era fandoms. Jerry played Magic the Gathering when it was a new thing.
>>80413222
Are you going by hobbies or their personalities?
By hobbies, Josh should be /a/, Jerry should be /tg/, Bill should be /co/, and Pete would be /tv/.
By personality, it kinda makes sense. I haven't spent enough time in /a/ to know whether it's the sort of board that just passively goes along with everything with a vague sense of discontent.
