Dirk Benedict
Gold Member
Not sure if this was posted. I did a quick search and found nothing.
Looks very interesting, at least.
Looks very interesting, at least.
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The Cockatrice
I'm retarded?
This looks mediocre.
Dirk Benedict
Gold Member
I'm seen so many trailers and not really many movies in the last couple of years. I'm going to check this out.
DKehoe
Member
I do think it's good to give stuff a chance even if it looks a bit different from what you might normally watch. I see so many people complaining about stuff these days but they don't seem to bother checking out anything beyond things they're already familiar with. It's better to get out of your comfort zone, check new shit out and broaden your horizons.
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spookyfish
Gold Member
I'm always down for more horror (or horror-adjacent). I'll probably check this out eventually.
Dirk Benedict
Gold Member
I just thought it was interesting enough to share. I also had to post it before
NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
did.
Son of a bitch.
NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
did.Son of a bitch.
Grildon Tundy
Member
Things are certainly happening! If the premise is decent I'll check it out.
John Bilbo
Gold Member
We are now deep in the modern
NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
Biggest Trails Stan
I just thought it was interesting enough to share. I also had to post it before
Son of a bitch.
Watched the teaser, looks interesting
Dirk Benedict
Gold Member
Yeah. That's it. I didn't think it looked good or bad. Just something I would want to check out.
Watched the teaser, looks interesting
I could understand if it looks like a bore to other people, though.
NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
Biggest Trails Stan
Horror is one of my favorite genres due to the willingness to actually try to make something new that's not based off an existing IP. Yes there are stuff like Friday The 13th etc, but there's also stuff like Hokum and Obsession
I'm interested in learning more when they release another trailer
Dirk Benedict
Gold Member
Really want to see Obsession. I saw one short trailer for it and decided it was going to get watched.
For horror, I've moved away from mindless violence and more toward subjects or stories that deal with more psychological themes. Only because it's easy to do violence, and despite the ongoing censorship, I am pretty desensitized to it.
NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
Biggest Trails Stan
I think I might have said this before but I used to avoid watching horror movie like 13 years ago just due to the gore. I started to watch them slowly where I started to get desensitized to the gore. Nowadays most gore doesn't bother me. But it also opened my watchlist to include movies that aren't horror that have a lot of gore. Like war movies etc
When it comes to horror, I've always been picky. Most slashers I don't like just because I just find them mostly safe and predictable. When it comes to Slasher franchises, I love Friday The 13th movies especially Jason X. Those movies are mindless fun to watch.
That's what I love about the horror genre, Obsession and Hokum are original concepts and from what I've been hearing both are great. I'm waiting for both of them to come to Streaming/VOD
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Dirk Benedict
Gold Member
I saw Hellraiser 2 at age 8. What should have fucked me up ended up turning me on to more horror movies. Growing up with so many, it's stuff I can't see or that has to do with higher concepts that trip me out or get a little fear out of me. That's the kind of horror that interests me.
NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
Biggest Trails Stan
I stopped watching Hellraiser after the third movie. The third movie had that Cenobite that shoots CDs out of their mouth. That was too cringy for me. I'm eventually gonna to watch the rest of the films. The first one is still the best in that franchise. The second one I did enjoy but wasn't as into the film as other people are. I do love the lore though. I read the book The Hellbound Heart and I even read the first Hellraiser Omnibus Comics. Both were fantastic reads
Dirk Benedict
Gold Member
Funny story. I knew someone who worked on Hellrasier 3 and he told me the entire plot. When I used to live in apartments, he was living there with his sister and her husband (they were saving for a house I think) His sister worked on The Predator and had original props and a mask from the movie set. Now, roughly several months later, I'm in the comic store and I see a fucking book, thicker than most of the other ones and it looks nice, too. So I grab it and it's a comic adaptation of Hellraiser 3. I read the whole thing there. They'd let me do that, anyway... sure enough, page by page confirmed dude wasn't talking shit and yeah. maybe a few weeks later I saw a TV spot for the movie and I end up seeing him sometime after that and he offers to take me with his family to see it.
I think there was a lot of interesting concepts and scenes in 3-4 and they really could have been improved to get rid of the cringe. Anything after 2 felt like satire and everything after 4 felt like laundering money. I saw the new one, recently, and.. wow. While I didn't like it, I didn't actually find myself hating it, either. Maybe I'm just becoming desensitized to how they're ruining a lot of stuff in entertainment in general, especially old, successful IP.
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NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
Biggest Trails Stan
That's awesome. The Hellraiser comics I read like four ago was all original stories set in the Hellraiser universe. It was collected in an Omnibus which I read on Comixlogy Unlimited. There was more than one Omnibus. I think there there was around 9 omnibuses total but the rest of the omnibuses I had to buy so I skipped on reading them
EDIT - I just looked at Amazon and I can't find the Omnibus I was talking about. Instead all I see is this new omnibus of the Hellraiser comics is coming this fall
With the second film, I hated how stupid the final form of the villain looked. It was dumb to me. But I love the added lore of the Labyrinth and Leviathan. I did like the lore that was added in the third film too with that pillar
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Dirk Benedict
Gold Member
The second was fine if you understand why he took on that form. He was literally connected to one of those tentacles that come straight from leviathan. Those tentacles, as you've seen produce a kind of miracle in a sense. They create but they also destroy and deform. You can see the same ones being utilized from the box while Pinhead is being created. It's also speculated that the reason Dr. Channard died was because leviathan kept the tentacle spears in place so that Channard could tear himself apart, trying to remove them.
NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
Biggest Trails Stan
It's been a while since I watched the film so lot of those details I forgot. But I will eventually get back to watching the rest of the films. I didn't like the Reboot movie they did on Hulu. They changed too much. I do plan on reading more of the comics too
Dirk Benedict
Gold Member
I felt the comics were more my jam. They do not fuck around in the comics. Also, shout out to Saucy Jack. One of my favorite characters from the comics, even if he doesn't show up too much.
NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
Biggest Trails Stan
It's kind of disappointing to me that the movies have mostly been bad. Hellraiser IP just has a uniqueness compared to other horror IPs that I wish there was better writers involved with it or have Clive Barker be more involved
John Marston
GAF's very own treasure goblin
Everytime I see quotes like "MASTERPIECE", "Oh my GAWD", "FUUUUCK" and "So scary your shit will shit its pants!" in horror movie trailers I just roll my eyes.
But that's marketing for ya.
That said I'm curious about that one
But that's marketing for ya.
That said I'm curious about that one
Dirk Benedict
Gold Member
Now that I think of it, that's a small part of why I dug this. It's not trying to sell itself with praise and all these arthouse accolades. I fucking saw Bugonia and did not expect the ending. The ending was it's redeeming factor for me because I was going back and forth in my mind about what this movie was trying to be. My favorite movie of 2025. Easily.Everytime I see quotes like "MASTERPIECE", "Oh my GAWD", "FUUUUCK" and "So scary your shit will shit its pants!" in horror movie trailers I just roll my eyes.
But that's marketing for ya.
That said I'm curious about that one
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
Why do y'all watch so many horror movies?! There's more to the human experience than fear and disgust!
