[Movies] Talk about the last movie you saw 2: Electric Threadaloo
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I just watched this too but I really didn't quite understand how the ending worked.
Well, as I understand the rules setup by the movie, killing and getting soaked in the blood of an Alpha Mimic, gives you the ability to reset the day. At the end he kills the Omega mimic, gets soaked in it's blood/viscera and gains the ability to reset further back to when the Omega was planning the attack which has failed because the Omega was defeated. Not exactly sure that's what happened, but it didn't really bother me since the whole movie was enjoyable up to that point.
fade
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It is but being one of the few kid friendly ones we've seen it several times.
Oh for sure, I enjoyed the movie too. Would recommend.
A few other kid friendly Halloween movies:
The Nightmare Before Christmas works for both holidays, but is the most obvious and you've all seen it, probably a billion times.
The Disney Halloweentown movies are cheesy fun.
Frankenweenie
Paranorman
The Witches. Love Angelica Houston in this one.
Coraline isn't really a Halloween movie, but I think it fits the tone of the season.
Monster Squad
The Worst Witch, because Tim Curry
The Nightmare Before Christmas works for both holidays, but is the most obvious and you've all seen it, probably a billion times.
The Disney Halloweentown movies are cheesy fun.
Frankenweenie
Paranorman
The Witches. Love Angelica Houston in this one.
Coraline isn't really a Halloween movie, but I think it fits the tone of the season.
Monster Squad
The Worst Witch, because Tim Curry
There's also Monster House. I love watching that.
Monster House is surprisingly underrated.
I saw Monster House in theaters, great flick with great side characters.
I'll second The Lady In White.
Another good option is to go old. The House on Haunted Hill, for example, is a classic, and back then the restrictions were much greater, so you get the scares without worrying about how many boobs you could get in a PG movie in the 80's. (The answer: so many boobs.)
Another good option is to go old. The House on Haunted Hill, for example, is a classic, and back then the restrictions were much greater, so you get the scares without worrying about how many boobs you could get in a PG movie in the 80's. (The answer: so many boobs.)
Unfortunately, the next tier up for modern films is getting into some of the bloody stuff, and the tier beyond that is probably too intense for kids as far as scariness goes, so I'm going to second Fun Size's suggestion going old. There are older movies that wedge nicely in the middle as they don't have the blood and sex, but they still take themselves seriously. The 40s Wolf Man is a good example.
I don't know how old your kids are; I watched the original Night of the Living Dead when I was 8 and look at me.
Actually, that was the same weekend I watched the Donald Sutherland Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and also Carnosaur. Don't repeat that triple feature.
Side note unrelated to Fade's plight:
Nostalgia Critic did an obscure Halloween "classics" video this week (I put it in quotes because it's pretty debatable), and spent some of it building up to his pick for #1, then decided this mystery film deserved its own review for next week.
I'm only posting about this here so I can call it being Monster Squad, which is fucking awesome and will probably be this Friday's movie for wife and me.
The Monster Squad -HOLY SHIT is this movie fun as all hell. The monster effects, Dracula just MOWING down cops, and of course "Wolfman's got nards!"
fade
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I watched an assload of horror when I was a kid. The difference was that a) most of them were the edited for TV versions, and b) I wasn't as squeamish as my kids. My son is 11, and I'm mostly talking about him. We did classic NotLD last Halloween, and he didn't think much of it. He was bored. Which is fine, because that movie is creepy but not really scary per se. I can't get him to go more than 5 minutes into a genuinely scary one, though. Big chicken. Bok bok bok.
So, too old for kids horror, not interested in creepy horror, and too scared for real horror. Maybe it's not his genre?
It's okay; my 12-year-old cousin is a chicken too. I remember watching all kinds of scary shit when I was little, but he gets scared of the DVD cover for Killer Klowns from Outer Space.
Kids these days ...
Actually, he watched Jaws and was fine. Have you tried Jaws? I know it's more of a 4th of July movie, but it does the trick.
GasBandit
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Whaddaya gonna do, knock my block off?
Wanted to watch that movie, but by the time I planned to get around to it, Netflix yoinked it.
My three favourite things watching the movie are:
1) Any time John Vernon is onscreen. "Well, whoopdee goddamn-da-doo!"
2) You could turn a drinking game into the amount of times the word "cocoons" is spoken.
3) The completely unintentional and yet totally hilarious homo-erotic subtext between the two main, male characters. It becomes worse as the movie progresses.
This is one of the only times I saw a horror movie on TV and it gave me nightmares for days. I was also 8 or 9 when I saw it. I haven't watched it since.
Incidentally, I have no fear of clowns then or now, just ones that are secretly aliens who wrap you up in cotton candy to drain you AWCRAP IT'S ALL COMING BACK TO ME NOW
I'm now through 5/8 of the Nightmare on Elm Street series. I just have to push through "Freddy's Dead*: The Final** Nightmare", and then they get good again.
*he's not
**there were three more
*he's not
**there were three more
Are you able to actually sit and pay attention to the plot? Those movies would bore me and I'd be messing with my phone the entire time.
Some of them are weird enough to be interesting, the middle ones don't really waste much time on the convoluted plot stuff, they're all 90 minutes or less. A lot of the practical effects are really impressive, too.
2 more.
They talked about a reboot, but it never happened.
"but..."
I said, it never happened.
"but, Jackie Ear..."
NEVER....................
HAPPENED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![DOUBLEPOST=1413555510,1413555304][/DOUBLEPOST]
Depends on the movie.
1,2,3 and New Nightmare are good movies, IMO.
2 is the most non sub-textual attempt at subtext I've ever seen.
HAY GUYS, GUESS WHAT.... FREDDY IN THIS MOVIE IS A METAPHOR FOR HOMOSEXUAL URGES..... DO YOU GET IT? OR DO I NEED TO YELL IT MORE LOUDLY AND OBVIOUSLY?????[DOUBLEPOST=1413555717][/DOUBLEPOST]In regards to most movies being, let's face it, not being very good; I have the box set of all of the movies through New Nightmare and they're so aware of the poor quality that they straight up "jump to a murder" selection right in the main menu.
I forgot about the relatively short runtime, that helps.[DOUBLEPOST=1413556954,1413556729][/DOUBLEPOST]
My perspective is skewed by my lack of free time due to the new baby. I am lucky to make it to 10pm most nights due to being up around 5:30 every morning. I can't waste my time on bad movies so I am super selective right now.
figmentPez
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It's so sad that Mr. Boogedy never got an official release in any format of home video.
It's on Amazon Instant, along with the sequel.
Necronic
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If you can find it, Spookies is a pretty crazy cult classic horror flick. Not sure how well known it is but it used to play on some UHF channel in the middle of the night when I was a kid.
figmentPez
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I had no idea. That's actually tempting. I wish it were on DVD or BluRay though. I'd like to actually own it, and not just rent it for an indefinite period of time.