Poughkeepsie Tapes Edition
Previously, on /hor/:
/hor/ Horror General
James Lopez
Xavier Taylor
Finally the best Halloween is coming to 4K
Nicholas Wright
Keep the Horror Harems coming
Logan Jenkins
rec me cheese like leprechaun 2, ice spiders
Lincoln Morris
Alright some of you are showing up so I can finally post this:
Holy shit bros, this sequel was actually pretty kino. I can't believe they swept it under the rug to make Ringu 2 instead. I get that releasing it on the same day as Ringu was pretty retarded of them, but still.
It's genuinely one of the most satisfying sequels I've seen. It adds to the lore without ruining it. Not only that, but it was also taking the story in an interesting direction.
I can't help but think that that one SCP using symbols only (no text or picture) kind of ripped off Rasen, but maybe I'm stretching.
The sequel hook also got me hyped, but I don't know if that's what it really was or if they were telling the audience they should go to their nearest library to buy Loop to discover what happens next. Will post pic.
(Loop was released in January 98 just like the movies Ringu and Rasen were, it seems).
I haven't seen Ringu 2 but I bet it's gonna be pretty generic compared to Rasen.
Josiah Williams
This really sucked.
Blake Williams
So yeah, anybody knows if they were teasing a movie or telling people to buy the book, there?
Hudson Lewis
Why do these independent restoration labels have such terrible box art?
Even the lowest budget horror movies from 40 years ago could get a proper artist to make good promotional artwork, but now this is what they settle for
Adam Myers
>picks sayoko over asami
Poor taste
Xavier Taylor
You do know you can switch out the art for the original poster, right? Arrow and Shout let you do that.
Nolan Jenkins
Wow, I tried to say otherwise but yea it's entirely forgettable except the ending twist, and even that will rub a lot of people the wrong way. I think it was telegraphed ahead of time but I really don't remember.
Logan Watson
>I haven't seen Ringu 2 but I bet it's gonna be pretty generic compared to Rasen
Ringu 2 is more of a horror movie in the vein of the first one. It has one or two really solid scare sequences that can contend with the original, and nice atmosphere. But it's way less ideas-driven than Rasen and the ending sucks.
Adapting Suzuki's books has always been a challenge, as general audiences don't really care for the high-concept side of Sadako. They just want to have her as a generic ghost and see her do her familiar party-piece. It's a tough conundrum.
Juan Harris
Rasen is a pleb filter. Ringu 2 is fine, but its a much more by the numbers sequel. The Sadako 3D movies are technically in the Rasen timeline, but they're total shit, chock full of continuity errors, and really don't build on anything that came before them.
Jose Howard
I bought Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever on a whim and I'm watching it right now. It's fucking terrible, and not in a "fun" way.
Owen Cook
first one was bad
Camden Hernandez
I watched the first one a bunch but it never really satisfied me. Just a really dumb story overall. The twist that there's no killer just an infection is kind of stupid honestly.
Jackson Roberts
I know and I have, but that doesn't excuse it or explain what they're thinking with some of those designs. I'd be happy with original artwork if they could make something that looked good, had thought put into it, and fit the tone of the movie. Very few of theirs do.
Joseph Walker
There's a made for tv movie they made before the first ringu that sticks to the book plot pretty much completely, it's up on youtube with shitty vhs rip quality but might be of interest
Henry Bailey
rec me cheese
Tyler Hughes
That doesn't appear to be the book cover, though maybe the Japanese version was vastly different and google just refuses to show it to an English search.
Christopher Johnson
That’s fair.
Kayden Morgan
Yeah I was wondering about this movie. Which one did you prefer, personally? 95 or 98? (if you've seen both)
Luis King
Weird films like Mad God?
Jaxon Perez
Finally got around to watching Child's Play ('88)
It kinda left me cold - not as charismatic as Elm Street, not as gory and sleazy as F13, not as atmospheric as Halloween. Does the series find its feet as it goes on, or is the first one a pretty solid indication of what comes afterwards?
I think I may have been memed into thinking this was something way more diabolical than it is by its reputation- when I was growing up this movie was connected to all kinds of horrific real-life murders so I was probably expecting something more intense from what's just a decent absurd horror.
Cooper Myers
You got me to check GoodReads because I suddenly remembered they document that kinda stuff. Turns out it was basically an ad for the novel.
David Richardson
It made me afraid of water for a moment when I was a little shit