drauch wrote:The main dude fights like the same four guys over and over. Then at the end, he ascends these stairs in this ramshackle building and fights what are essentially mini-bosses before he tackles the bad dude. Then he gets the girl. The audio is also really insane, so each punch sounds like two.
This sounds amazing, cheers bud
BryanM wrote:these Bad Guys exist simply to be murdered by the hero, a catharsis for our own violent urges. Dehumanized bags of human-shaped meat.
Tangentially, this is the heart of The Videogame Action.
Catharsis without collateral. It's refreshing! A good shonen manga works the same way. "Turn your sorrow into rage." If you do this IRL, disaster and horror ensue!
Seeing an alternate design for the monster they didn't use in Alien, I thought to myself how much better new Alien movies would be if they, you know, had new kinds of aliens. As dumb as Prometheus was, I have to give it credit for that much.
This is why I prefer the anthology approach in horror, and why I'll always wish
MM's Alien sequel had been filmed instead of
Bald Spacejesu VS Monster Squid: Backyard Wrestling In Future. (Hell, I would've been down with both those alien fucks, in anthology context - sometimes, a dick in the mouth is just a dick in the mouth!)
Create a canvas, with some very general tenets, then tell unique stories. Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, Tales/Crypt, etc etc. Familiarity and horror are mortal enemies!
Familiarity and most intense emotional reactions are, innit. This some caveman shit. 3;
RE: More post-1999 horror in the
"World of someone's nightmarish delusions come to life" (cf Best Dad Mr. Harry Mason): I'll give
The Wind a nod. For the love of god, don't Youtube it! You'll be treated to a very cool oldschool PC point/click promotional game... which will spoil most of the film's best shots. Any good work of this sort should be revisitable on story alone, imo, but it's a shame to hobble that sense of discovery. I suspect I'd have enjoyed it more without the heads-up. As noted, it gets a bit daft, but while I'd forgotten that aspect, the story's stuck around my tormented dome!
Also,
February aka
The Blackcoat's Daughter. Superb.
GaijinPunch wrote:Onibaba [1964]
Just that title is givin me chills in context
Sounds superb, onto the list!
GaijinPunch wrote:The Warriors [1979]
Probably the only person on the planet that hadn't seen this. I guess I can see it's appeal as a cult classic to an extent, but other than atmosphere in general, this lacks quite a bit. Can you dig it?
RLM's Re-View (featuring famous star Jay Baumann and some asshole pizza delivery guy) nailed it, I think. It's a cartoon through and through... or more charitably, Homer's Odyssey via comicbook late 70s NYC. They mentioned it's based on a novel, which was apparently a lot grittier (apparently the characters were significantly younger), which sounds interesting.