The Horror Thread 2U • Page 146

A big yay from me

 

I loved it but it definitely wasn't great. If you're into MTV drama you'll love it

 

For real! If I would've known that is have such a huge movie collection.

Thanks for this, you're awesome!

Speaking of USA...Chucky tv show starts this week

 

I couldn’t deal with the after-school-special-ness of it all, but it has its place.

 

i will forever say that Blair Witch 2 was/is pretty great and ahead of its time as far as being weirdly meta and poking fun at itself and people’s reactions to things. I know the director hates the version the studio released (which also makes for a great director commentary listen) but I love that it wasn’t just three more people in the woods and loved that it brought in the real world reaction to the film to build its world.

 

2nd season of Killer Camp started on CW tonight

 

Video Violence 2 right now. Love the music so much. Man, I expected these to be a bit more campy than they are mean spirited, but I’m still enjoying myself

 

I'm glad I'm not the only one that feels this way. I thought it was a really interesting take.

 

it also has one of my favorite lines / deliveries / scenes ever with, “she’s the witch, man!” that friends and I have quoted at least once a week for almost two decades lol

 

Time to break out a fun one tonight, love the Steelbook packaging.

 

I feel this so much. I would just ignore the inserts back when but now, I could’ve had a backup collection had I used those codes.

 

What’s wrong with New Nightmare? That’s a solid meta horror movie and I’ll die on that hill for it.

 

Splatter Farm time! My first Polonia bros flick

 

I love Video Violence 2 even more than the first one haha. The music is SO good.

I think most people would haha I appreciate the originality, but it's bogged down by awful child acting, Freddy's unfortunate redesign, and like, two on-screen kills in just under two hours. It just winds up being a slog for me and not what I want in a Nightmare film. I think meta-angle really worked best when Wes did it with a brand new franchise (Scream).

 

TV Tropes posits that despite a similar meta premise, people may favor Scream over New Nightmare because Scream was about movie fans and New Nightmare about movie producers. If a movie producer dies in the woods, does anyone care? The answer is apparently no.

 

Saw Scream in theaters today for the 25th anniversary. no new trailer (apparently it was leaked earlier in spanish?) here’s the thing, what Craven did with this movie is unparalleled, what a pleasant little thing

 

Man, I've always been a staunch defender of Halloween 2, but 4 is really, really solid as well. Just a great trilogy of films, both of those sequels deserve more love. It's a shame 5 turned out the way it did.

 

I feel like without NN, we wouldn’t have gotten Scream imo. They both are these meta movies deconstructing the slasher genre but NN has the edge for me personally due to the figurative and literal idea of Freddie haunting Heather, Robert, and Wes, as all three of them lived in the shadow of the original until Wes was able to break out of that with Scream. I really like that angle and Scream to me was Wes realizing he had a good thing going with the meta idea so why not take it a step further and just poke fun at the genre while making a really good slasher at the same time. Basically what I’m saying is that NN walked so Scream could run and I think it deserves a little credit for that imo.

 

Just watched Ginger Snaps for the first time. That was pretty wild.

 

I think it’s high time for werewolf movies to come back in vogue

 

Underwraps remake was awful.

Muppets Haunted Mansion was awesome.

 

Yeah aren’t we just about due for Hollywood to reboot Twilight? Ha just kidding

I watched Werewolves Within today. It was kinda fun.

 

There were two really good ones in the past year.

Speaking of Wes Craven and werewolves I watched Cursed recently and had a lot of fun. I think it would've been a lot bigger if it came out 5-6 years earlier.

 

I agree with this, but unfortunately, it doesn't make the experience any more fun for me

 

Decided to rank the big three. Hard to decide on a fourth to compete my Mount Slashmore, but between Leatherface and Chucky, I think Chucky takes it based on sequel consistency and recognition alone.

Halloween
Friday the 13th
F13: The Final Chapter
F13: Jason Takes Manhattan
F13 Part 2
Halloween 2
Halloween 4
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Halloween 2018
Season of the Witch

F13: New Blood
F13: A New Beginning
ANOES: Dream Warriors
F13: Jason Lives
Freddy vs. Jason
F13 2009
Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers
ANOES: Freddy's Revenge
ANOES 2010
ANOES Dream Master

ANOES Dream Child
F13: 3D
Jason Goes to Hell
Halloween Ressurection
Halloween H20
Zombie's Halloween
ANOES: Freddy's Dead
New Nightmare
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
Jason X
Zombie's Halloween 2