Talk about horror movies you fags
today's topics:
Is Event Horizon overrated (and if so why) ?
Would The Call of Cthulhu work as found footage (to stay true to its literary format) ?
Under which conditions can jumpscares work (and what constitutes a jumpscare) ?
What's the best kind of horror movie soundtrack ?
Which version of Nosferatu is the best (including Alien) ?
Is horror a sweetspot between thriller and gorefest or is it something else?
Also I just watched Resolution and it was pretty good.
>>67489484
I just watched pic related, and can recommend it to anyone interested in some good old-school indie horror.
>>67489582
how old school are we talking?
I think CoC would suck as found footage
>>67489582
It's probably got the best flow between shorts for an anthology I've watched in a long time.
>>67489603
Pretty old-school in "the villain is not something you barely see"-shit.
The movie tells 5 stories of 5 different people who all happen to be in the same geographical location.
All 5 stories link into one another in a really good fashion, and most of them are really creepy with a distinct paranormal element.
Just don't expect great CGI. That kinda' makes it even more disturbing though.
>>67489604
The story itself is the equivalent of a found footage mockumentary based entirely on other found footage, and I think it's a pretty important part of what makes it good. It's not an epic tale of supernatural horror, it's just one guy's crazy conclusions after coming across a bunch of documents and talking with other crazy people.
I should also add to my above post that stories 1 and 2 are really good while everything up to 5 is kinda' meh. It picks back up again for the 5th one though.
>>67489582
the poster looks pretty kickass at least
>>67489582
>going south
>he's going North Northeast
What did he mean by this?
>>67489728
Found footage is the cheapest and lazy way to create a film in modern existence. Other than The Blair Witch Project, there has never been a found footage film that was better than mediocre, and that includes Cannibal Holocaust.
>>67489484
Jump scares rely on not buildup, and not being the only thing the film is running on.
Lake Mungo and 'the scene' from Mulholland Drive both are amazing in this regard.
>>67489836
>Up is north
Wew lad
>>67489811
The entire movie IS pretty kickass! It's not the deepest horror in the world but it's pretty good and the stories it tell never fail to entertain.
>>67489484
>Is Event Horizon overrated (and if so why) ?
I don't feel that it is. Sure, it's not the peak of all horror anymore, but I watched it a while ago and it held up pretty well I'd say.
>Would The Call of Cthulhu work as found footage (to stay true to its literary format) ?
Maybe. It might be better as a mockumentary though like >>67489728 said. I can totally see that if they nail the atmosphere of being truly along in a village that passively hates you.
>What's the best kind of horror movie soundtrack ?
The way I see it, it can go two ways. It can either be really bombastic and emphasize the emotional high. Or it can be really subtle and sneak up on you to emphasize the PEAKS of said emotional high. It really depends on the movie, but the latter tends to be the best if done well.
>Which version of Nosferatu is the best (including Alien) ?
Couldn't tell you, sadly.
>Is horror a sweetspot between thriller and gorefest or is it something else?
Gorefest is not horror.
Thriller is not horror.
Horror is not a mix of both. Horror is it's own beast.
>Also I just watched Resolution and it was pretty good.
I too am feeling like re-watching it. Good tastes.
>>67489917
On buildup*
>>67489945
*alone
I'm tired.
>>67489945
>>67489988
you're also confusing The Call of Cthulhu with The Shadow over Innsmouth
>>67489904
This means nothing when the source material is already in a similar format.
>>67489728
But it's not actual found footage. Modernizing the story would ruin it.
>>67490102
This. I know what he's saying. It was written as a man's account of another document he'd read.
I think Event Horizon is overrated.
One or two scenes are slightly butt-clenching but otherwise it relies heavily on shock factor and a plot twist/gimmick.
The former is really lame compared to the wave of gore porn that came after it, and the latter is disappointing or just spoiled by people who try to get you hyped up for it.
What it has going for it, is an urban legend about the lost footage being allegedly super gruesome, and 40k fanboys holding it up as "basically a 40k prequel" which is ridiculously exaggerated.
It's too stylized and flashy to draw an impact from realism, but it's not surreal enough to be really impressive.
Hellraiser 2 has ten times more horrifying and visually interesting shit in it.
>>67490299
Nobody's called it an unofficial DOOM movie?
I mean this is the guy who spent the rest of his career adapting video games.
>>67490102
depends on how much you modernize it. The big advantage of found footage is that it can be super old, and since there's several sources they could span across several decades.
>>67490188
precisely
>>67490349
maybe when it came out but since then 40k fanboys have been hyping it up just based on the warp drive concept, which makes the movie horribly underwhelming if you compare it to 40k lore about the warp.
Frankenstein's Army is the most frustrating horror film I've ever seen. The set and creature design is GOAT, but the crap acting and the found footage style is awful.
It could have been 13 Ghosts in WWII, but they had to fuck it up.
>>67489484
>Which version of Nosferatu is the best (including Alien) ?
Shadow of the Vampire's my personal favorite.
>>67490422
it's got some nice meta elements and it's shot beautifully (as expected of Mehrige) but it doesn't have a really strong atmosphere unlike Herzog's.
