Fright Night 2011

I will always prefer the original FN, but the 2011 version has some good points. I was just watching it (the 2011 one) and I admit it got me sucked in a little, ha ha. There's one point when Charlie says to some of his supposedly cool new friends "It's just game, man. Rock solid game." I think I actually said out loud, under my breath, "Oh, you're so cool, Brewster," when he said that. So, OK, I was quoting the original, but at least I have to admit that the new version provoked a response.

I also like the scene where he goes over to Evil Ed's house and talks to E.E.'s parents. They really captured the sense that he and Ed had been friends, but had grown apart to some extent... the parents are glad to see Charlie, but definitely a little uneasy and nervous at the same time. They have no idea, of course, that their son has already been transformed into a blood sucking Hell-thing.

I also thought Imogen Poots did a decent job as Amy. She made a plausible American girl. I've had a crush on her for a long time, sooooooo it's always good to get a chance to see her in anything. I like how Amy wears that sweater thing that somehow ends up looking like a classic Hammer female vampire outfit. I wonder if they did that because she's British?!? I have no idea.

Anybody have any thoughts on this movie?

Is everyone here employed full-time?

Mine is boring, so don't bother (part-time dishwasher).

But it seems to me that a lot of people here might have interesting full-time jobs.
Not sure what he does, but -deadandburied81- said he spends 9 hours in front of a PC.
Also, if memory serves me correct, Johan said that he's a test-engineer.

Tell me about your jobs, especially if they're full-time. I'm interested.

Review: Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary (1975)


I just love these offbeat vampire flicks. I decided to check this out on the spur of the moment a few months back and I didn't regret it. It is based around female artist who happens to be a vampire - played seductively by the stunning Cristina Ferrare. It is not your traditional vampire flick in the sense that this one is about vampirism as a disease like George Romero's 'Martin' - only 'Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary' predates it by three years. The main performance of Cristina Ferrare is pretty good as cold-blooded,albeit vulnerable killer.

She doesn't like to consume blood but it is her "illness" that keeps her doing so, she even apologized to one of her victims before killing her. You always feel sympathetic for her, even thou she commits all these acts. It is easy to see where George Romero got his inspiration from. I don't think I have ever seen such a horror film where the protagonist was so vulnerable, so lonely, except in 'Martin', obviously. There are beautiful scenes of beaches, villas and museums that never fails to lure the viewers interest. Excellent character study where the protagonist has a disease to drink blood.


The murders are pretty unsettling because we never really expect it because like I say - Mary is so sympathetic and vulnerable. There are no coffins, crucifixes, or vampires in Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary - just a vulnerable woman who can't control her urges. The direction isimmensely creative, which relies on close-ups and zooms, and the pacing is of course suspenseful. With only 259 votes it is fair to say that it doesn't get the love it deserves.

Anyone seen Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary (1975) and what did you think of it?

Movies revolving around motels/hotels?

Regardless of genre. Off the top of my head some i have already watched :

Bug
Identity
No Vacancy (fucking terrible)
The Motel Life
Across the Hall

Most Fun To Watch

What horror movies or horror franchise do you have the most fun watching? For me, it's definitely The Final Destination franchise. I love how each movie opens up with some major disaster. I love the buildup for the kills and the fairly unique way in which the characters meet their demise.

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Raw (2016)

Has anyone seen it yet? I finally got around to watching it the other week and I was really impressed. It's essentially a coming of age cannibal movie with good gore and some fucked up moments. I also felt like it lived up to the hype, unlike The Witch from last year.

Five Nights at Freddy's

If you live in the United States, you have to be living under a rock if you've at least never heard of Chuck E. Cheese's. But for those of you who are unaware, let me sum up Chuck E. Cheese's right here: a place that sells low quality pizza, has games that give tickets for prizes (cheap toys and other small junk like that), and has an animatronic show, featuring Chuck E. Cheese himself and some other forgettable characters. In other words, a chaotic, fun time for kids and a living nightmare for parents.


So, with all of that in mind, allow me to present: Five Nights at Freddy's (2014). A low budget, indie, point-and-click, survival horror game that takes place in the fictional Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. You're the night time security guard, which would normally probably be a really boring job in a place like that. But not here. Here, the animatronic's roam around at night and if they manage to get inside your little security room, you are completely fucked. As a previous employee in the game describes over the phone to you on your first night, they will think you're a robot out of costume and force you into a costume, where you're stabbed by the metal parts meant to connect to the robots.

Inside your security room, you do have a few ways to help protect yourself, but of course, there are catches. There's a camera system, but the cameras don't cover certain areas, including the two hallways right outside of the security room. There's also one camera that has audio, but no video and occasionally, all of the cameras momentarily lose their video feed. For the two hallways outside of the security room, you can turn on lights, but the lights only stay on for a few seconds. And then there are electronic doors that you can shut to cut off the security room from the rest of the building. But here's where the biggest catch comes into play: all of these things run off of a limited power supply and once you run out of that power, you lose all of those defenses, leaving you at the mercy of the four animatronics: Freddy Fazbear, Bonnie the Bunny, Chica the Chicken, and Foxy the Pirate Fox.

As the title of the game states, there are five nights to the game. I'm only up to night four myself, but apparently, if you manage to get through all five nights, you unlock a night six and after that, a night where you can customize the difficulty of each individual animatronic. Each night gets more difficult than the last, meaning you'll die a lot. The previous employee I mentioned before calls you at the start of each night, giving a little advice and adding a little story to the game, though don't expect anything truly deep and groundbreaking. The game is definitely kept as simple as possible. And for that, I don't think I'm going to find much replay value in the game when I finish up all of the nights.

Something that I feel is pretty unique about the game is its use of pre-rendered graphics. Pre-rendered graphics were a popular technique for games back in the 1990s, which allowed for higher detail that 3D graphics at the time couldn't provide, but as a result, interaction with the pre-rendered graphics was limited. The early Resident Evil games used a combination of pre-rendered graphics (the backgrounds) and 3D graphics (the character/enemy models). But as 3D graphics have improved in quality, pre-rendered graphics have been forgotten about. As a result, I feel that Five Nights at Freddy's use of pre-rendered graphics gives the game a certain nostalgic edge.

If you like a lot of jump scares that aren't just cheap and irrelevant, then this game is definitely for you. It's simple, but very effective at what it does. As I said, I don't think the game will have much replay value once it's beaten, but I only paid $5 for it on Steam, so it's hard to really complain about that.










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LSD: Dream Emulator (1998)

The title says it all about this game. LSD: Dream Emulator is based on a real dream journal that had been written over the course of a decade and it feels like a drug trip when you're playing. Though apparently the 'LSD' part actually stands for 'Lovely Sweet Dream', the title of the journal.

It should be no surprise either that it was only released in Japan for PlayStation. Not to say other regions never get weird games, but back then especially, I think there was no real market for it elsewhere. Certainly not one viewed as profitable by the publisher. It seems that whoever owns the rights to the game now might still feel that way because while the game's available on the digital PlayStation Store, it's again only for Japan. A shame since the game's mostly English-friendly.

The game has 14 distinct areas that you can visit within the dreams, such as Violence District (a city at nighttime where you might find things like a woman hanging from a light pole) and Happy Town (what I believe is supposed to be a trippy-colored carnival).

You can travel to these areas either by tunnel or for a more random experience, simply bumping into walls and objects. If you press against a wall or object for more than a second, you'll be taken to a new area. This can be annoying if you're trying to explore an area and you accidentally bump into something. The controls don't make it easy to look around to make sure you aren't going to unintentionally hit anything. I guess that's the nature of dreams: a lack of control.

You never know what you'll find in an area. In the 30 minutes or so that I played to gather these screenshots, I encountered a head with arms and legs, a giant fish in the sky, statues sliding down a street on their own, a pissed off peacock, the gray man (the antagonist of the game who causes you to 'forget' memories of past dreams, related to a flashback mode where you can revisit dreams), and the previously mentioned hanging woman.

It's impossible to predict what you might encounter where as they generate randomly and there's far more to see than those. That's where most of my enjoyment playing the game comes from, just looking for weird shit I haven't seen before. It's almost like playing out a David Lynch or Alejandro Jodorowsky movie.

The dreams usually end when you die (such as falling into a bottomless pit) or after a random amount of time. One time it might last only about two or three minutes. The next time, closer to 10. However, sometimes you'll start a new dream and only receive text in Japanese or a short video. I'm not sure what the ultimate goal of the game is and I'm not sure anyone else knows either. After you play through a year's worth of days, you apparently see an ending video and the game starts over.

You view a chart after each dream with four areas labeled 'upper', 'downer', 'static', and 'dynamic'. While it's obvious that it's marking what kind of dream you had, no one seems to have a clear grasp on what most interactions in the game actually affect the chart, only speculation. Sometimes, the textures in the game will change, but that's another area of the game with a lot of unknown factors.

That's about it when it comes to the game itself. As I said, it's based on a dream journal, which was turned into an actual book and can be downloaded from the game's wiki https://dreamemulator.wikia.com/wiki/The_Dream_Journal . Each entry is in both Japanese and English. I read through some of it and a few entries definitely reminded me of moments within the game.

There was also music released with the game. I know even less about that besides that it's not music actually heard in the game. It's not a good game in the conventional sense, but as a 'dream emulator', there will probably never be another game quite like it. I can think of a couple other surreal games. However, none feature the variety and mystery that LSD: Dream Emulator is capable of offering.

While the game was only ever released in Japan and is around $300 on Ebay, it's pretty easy to find a rom for it. I tried to run it on a PlayStation emulator called ePSXe. That fucker refuses to run though, both the current version and older versions. A lot of people like the emulator, so maybe it's just my computer being a piece of shit. Fortunately, I found a torrent containing the game with another emulator already set up to run it. It functioned enough to do what I needed to do.

If you don't want to bother with emulators, there's also a fan remake https://www.lsdrevamped.net/ in the works. I played it and while the layout of the areas is accurate, it's incredibly lacking when it comes to random encounters. In what must have been an hour, I only encountered the gray man once and nothing else. In all fairness, the remake's only in alpha and the guy working on it talks about it frequently on his blog, as recently as earlier this month. Hopefully the finished product has a lot more to it.

The Witch (2015)

So, I'm watching The Witch for the second time. I kept hearing about how good this movie is, but I just can't really like it. I hate the ending, but what's worse is I can't understand a damn thing the father says ( I keep waiting for him to say I'm Batman with that shit awful voice of his.), and the mother is an annoying cunt. Black Phillip is pretty cool though.😄