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Was rewatching Texas Chainsaw Massacre the other day, and I realized how the scene where the gas station manager feigns that he's going to help Sally and then comes back in with a rope and bag is so genuinely terrifying to me in a way that my male partner doesn't get.

I'm curious, for my fellow femme horror fans out there, which scenes hit different for you?

I re-watched The Grey (2011) for the first time in about 5 or so years. I remember liking it a lot as a teenager, championed it, particularly to my brother and he also liked it a lot. But when I re-watched it on a lazy Sunday, I forgot how good it really is.

To start out, this film shows how much clout Liam Neeson had at the time. The whole marketing campaign was built off of what is the final shot of the film. Liam Neeson is a badass fighting some wolves is what we all thought it was going to be. But, Joe Carnahan reached back to the intrigue and hopelessness of Narc (2002). And made one of the more hopeless studio films of the 21st Century. A film where Neeson screams to God at the empty, white sky begging for help.

It looks fantastic, the 35mm photography captures the whites of the snow gloriously. And despite some obvious CGI (for wolves and backgrounds), the film is intimately photographed. Most of the time the camera is between or in the middle of the circle of these men, capturing each look of despair and anxiety. It is also a brutal film, the violence is shown is all of its realism, with Greg Nicotero providing gore effects, which are eerily convincing.

Everyone here is also terrific, and even though the film plays like Alien (1979) where everyone gets picked off one by one. Every actor in here gets a chance to shine, and Neeson in particular is not a badass in this film. He is just educated and forward thinking, he outwardly admits his fear and that he has no shame in admitting it. They have great chemistry with each other, which is good because the emotional moments of the film wouldn't work without it.

I think the reason this did well financially, but didn't hold with most audiences like Taken did is that it has a very 1970s, New Hollywood ending. Tarantino in Cinema Speculation described it best, where he said films from that era were expected to end depressingly. And I think many people who expected a Taken ending, where he somehow survives, were completely disappointed. I didn't see it in a theater, but I would imagine there was a lot of "What?" coming from the audience when the film cut to black.

What do you guys think? I know it is well-liked here for the most part, but always interested in dissenting opinions of course.

Hello All. I'm currently suffering from severe exhaustion and cannot keep up with TV series lol so I'm on a horror binge. I'm looking for decent horror movies that are new-ish and specifically NOT zombie or poltergeist/possession related. I'm not a fan of zombies and possession ones just freak me out lol.

I watch them alone (well, with my dog) so exorcisms are too much alone!

I recently watched The Menu (not horror really but loved the humour), Bodies Bodies Bodies (was ok, nothing special) and ... Something else that I can't remember. I am very tired..

Also I don't want subtitles please because I am just so tired I don't wanna have to read. Usually they're grand but right now just no ...

My favourite horror movies involve a good story, dark humour (though not crucial, I just love a bit of dark humour), suspense and everything else horror brings. I'm not against slasher movies, eerie ones like Amelie for example. I love all American Horror Story seasons so I'm open to most (other than what I mentioned)

I've seen all the oldie classics like The Shining, Ring, Grudge etc.

It doesn't have to be specifically on any particular streaming platform - any is fine!

Please help me get some good ones to watch :)

What I mean by this are actors who are much bigger or more famous than the movie they show up in.

The example that inspired this post was Abe Vigoda showing up in Good Burger.

Almost the opposite of a "before the were famous" role. An actor who is already super famous and well known showing up in a movie that is much smaller than their previous body of work would suggest.

I've (finally) watched The Godfather trilogy. I avoided it for years because I was afraid of the duration, but I'm amazed how these hours just flew by. There's not a dull moment, a wasted scene, a line that doesn't hold interest. Shows the talent of everyone involved.

Let me start by saying that I liked part III. However, I understood people's problem with it within 5 minutes.

My main issue with the movie is that the Michael Corleone from part III is vastly different from the one in I and II.

He talks too much. He moves too much. His emotions are on full display at all times, and not only when he wants like in previous movies. If Al Pacino hasn't continued having a career I'd have forgotten his voices after the first two movies, that's how little he talks.

Even his looks, the spiky hair to make himself look taller is extremely out of character. Plus the shades.

I feel like in the first two movies I watched Michael Corleone. While on the third I watched Al Pacino playing Michael Corleone.

Just sharing this because I have just fallen in love with these movies and I needed to voice what I felt made the difference in the last one.

in the early 80s 20 million was a big pretty big budget for a film, heck star trek II only cost 12 million and looks great. Conan cost 20 million and has some great sets and atmosphere. Megaforce on the other hand looks like crap and the special effects are terrible. There is a sky diving scene that looks good at first but when they go in for close ups on the actors themselves looks like they filmed actors flailing around laying on the floor and superimposed footage over it, it's quite clear and poorly edited because the footage doesn't really match up. The effects for the flying motorcycle at the end of the film is so poorly done it has to be seen to be believed.

Megaforce is about a secret organization where the characters protect the world from terrorists around the world, they drive around on high tech motorcycles and dune buggies with laser weapons and missiles on them. They are led by a character named Ace Hunter played by Barry Bostwick who sports a perm, powder blue headband your girlfriend probably wore while at the gym and a goofy grey jumpsuit. Michael Beck from the warriors and Henry Silva who has played in a lot of things also show up. The love interest in the film is played by Persis Khambatta, the bald woman from Star Trek The Motion Picture is also in this and her and Barry Bostwick's character keep doing weird thumb kisses throughout the film.

This film had a huge marketing push, the theme song for the movie played on the radio all the time, there were tons of ads in comic books, there was a video game, there were toys, this film was really being pushed as a big movie that could be a big franchise and it became a huge failure

Inspired from recent post asking the opposite.

I thought to myself, there are infinite ways to destroy a movie, but if you will allow the analogy, when a plane is in an uncontrollable nosedive, it takes a skilled pilot to save the day.

I think it might even be more interesting to learn and discuss sleeper movies where out the gates the movie is near abysmal, but in the end becomes a favorite.

(I think the grammar of the title is wrong. Sorry 😞)

I was thinking about this today - what movie(s) have gone from “man this is really good” to “wtf am I watching?” in record time?

Some movies start off really strong and go on for a while, but then, usually halfway through Act 2, the quality of the writing just plummets, and then you’re left with a mess. An example of that would be League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

But has a movie ever gone from good to bad in minutes? Maybe the first Suicide Squad?

Like i know hes known more as a action actor, but do people really think his acting was that bad? The movie is one of the directors better movies abd obviously river pheonix gets brought up (as he should) but i didnt even know keanu reeves was in it because it doesnt get mentioned. It should be brought up more when talking about him.

Twice in Face/Off (1997) Castor Troy (as both Castor and Sean) sings “I’m ready, ready for the big ride Baaaaaby.”

What is the song? Google unsurprisingly isn’t giving me anything! A podcast I listened to recently suggested that it was an Elvis song but again can’t find anything.

Was Nicolas Cage ad libbing or is he pulling songs from an alternate universe?!?! 😂😂😂

It's taken me some time, but I've watched all of the surviving films by Georges Melies, totaling 197 (not counting those that only exist in flipbook form and considering The Dreyfus Affair as a single entry). Many of these only survive as fragments, some just a few seconds long. I assigned a rating to those that consisted of more than one tableau, with a few exceptions:

1. The Dreyfus Affair - 4

2. Cinderella - 7

3. Joan of Arc - 5

4. The Christmas Dream - 5

5. Blue Beard - 8

6. A Trip to the Moon - 10

7. Gulliver's Travels Among the Lilliputians and the Giants - 5

8. Robinson Crusoe - 7

9. Fairyland, or the Kingdom of the Fairies - 8

10. The Damnation of Faust - 5

11. The Impossible Voyage - 7

12. The Christmas Angel - 5

13. The Palace of the Arabian Nights - 5

14. An Adventurous Automobile Trip - 7

15. Rip's Dream - 7

16. The Chimney Sweep - 5

17. A Desperate Crime - 5

18. The Merry Frolics of Satan - 7

19. The Witch - 5

20. Robert Macaire and Bertrand - 5

21. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - 5

22. How Bridget's Lover Escaped - 5

23. Tunneling the English Channel - 7

24. The Eclipse, or the Courtship of the Sun and the Moon - 8

25. The Dream of an Opium Fiend - 5

26. Why That Actor Was Late - 4

27. Sideshow Wrestlers - 4

28. The Woes of Roller Skaters - 5

29. Not Guilty - 5

30. Pharmaceutical Hallucinations - 5

31. The Good Sheperdess and the Evil Princess - 4

32. Tribulations or The Misfortunes of a Cobbler - 5

33. The Devilish Tenant - 7

34. The Doctor's Secret - 5

35. The Hallucinations of Baron Munchausen - 7

36. The Conquest of the Pole - 7

37. Cinderella or the Glass Slipper - 5

38. The Knight of the Snows - 5

39. The Voyage of the Bourrichon Family - 4

It's fascinating stuff, but honestly, it got very repetitive very quickly. There's only so many times you can watch the same match cut trick before getting sick of it. If you're interested in early cinema, I wouldn't recommend you do what I did; select a few of his more noteworthy films and you'll get the gist of it. Make sure, of course, that you watch A Trip to the Moon. There's a very good reason why it has become a classic and one of the most influential films of all time.