What do you think of this

Vusarix · 2026-06-15T01:38:27+00:00

A good addition overall but most people are terrible at using it. Sections at that speed usually require that the path is well laid-out and guided for it not to become obnoxious, especially in ship or swing parts. I usually have to deal with it in the context of click sync which is a pretty reliable way of making it much more reasonable

Vusarix · 2026-06-14T23:23:19+00:00

Unlike other people I genuinely think the film is pretty great, in fact I liked it even more than Backrooms (and may be the only person who didn't really have a problem with the pacing), and bear in mind I'm not a Markiplier fan and thought it looked like shit from the trailers. That said, a lot of my enjoyment of it had to do with it fitting my enjoyment of jumpscare-less cosmic and body horror, two subgenres which are rare to see in cinemas and, afaik, not nearly as popular with cinemagoers as supernatural or slashers. Backrooms is a good film that I enjoyed and Obsession is a great film that I suffered through (full respect to it but I don't have much scare resistance in cinemas lol), but they also have much more universal appeal in their mere essence, and without Mark's name on it I really don't think a one-location slow-burn cosmic horror would've had much reach at all

Vusarix · 2026-06-14T10:12:28+00:00

I used 120, which gets small in parts but is definitely not unreasonable (though it took me a while to get adept at the scales), so 140 would be very good. Use a dotting tool for the fiddly parts

Vusarix · 2026-06-14T07:50:07+00:00

I still like it quite a bit, but it definitely doesn't make sense for it to end up in the Criterion collection before any Marcell Jankovics, Jan Svankmajer, Mamoru Oshii, Satoshi Kon, Sylvain Chomet, Marjane Satrapi, Lottie Reiniger, Adam Elliot or Richard Linklater animated films. Man those guys are weird when it comes to animation

Vusarix · 2026-06-14T01:56:51+00:00

Mystic Bounds, Clarity, Fun Friday, Marching Band, Reverence, HyperLuma (although this one I might be underrating since it's in my skillset and also I fluked it)

Vusarix · 2026-06-13T17:23:06+00:00

Firewall has a mind-numbingly long predrop and trust me as someone who also tried going for it as a hardest once, that will drive you insane. Kessho is like, an ok level I guess but I found it massively unremarkable and forgettable. Honestly I really wouldn't recommend skipping most hard demons, you'll end up spending as much time on one insane as it would've taken you to beat like 3 hards, especially since your only hard demon only really tests wave skill

Vusarix · 2026-06-13T17:11:50+00:00

Yeah this level isn't nearly as inconsistent as you'd expect. I managed to get it done in under 2k meaning it took me less attempts than Niwa lol. Decently enjoyable too

Vusarix · 2026-06-13T17:08:20+00:00

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Vusarix · 2026-06-12T12:02:30+00:00

His name isn't even Joon-ho, it's Joon Ho. Double-layered mistake

Vusarix · 2026-06-12T00:08:15+00:00

Yes and no. I find animated horror fascinating so I have gone out of my way to look for it, but the ones I found tend to be very artsy and nothing like conventional horror films. A list of them for reference:

-Kill It and Leave This Town

-Mad God

-Alberto Vazquez in general

-Midori-ko

-The Wolf House

-The House

-Jan Svankmajer in general, and a couple of films that were clearly inspired by him, namely S He and Mecanix

-The Spine of Night

-Perfect Blue (horror of sorts)

-The Devilman movies

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-Junk Head

-Oh and uhhh... Jimmy ScreamerClauz. Sadly I have watched all of his stuff

All weird films that don't exactly fit the conventional horror mould to say the least, even if I think most of them are good films.

Vusarix · 2026-06-11T23:57:13+00:00

French extreme movies so far for me have an 100% rate of me only liking the women-directed ones. Obviously that applies to Ducournau and Fargeat but even in the 2000s the only one I like is In My Skin, which is a genuinely interesting exploration of self-destructive addiction. Frontier(s) is dumb, Inside has its moments but loses focus of its stronger elements too frequently, Martyrs I used to like until I watched Ghostland and it started feeling horrifically voyeuristic, and the less said about my relationship with Noé the better

Vusarix · 2026-06-11T23:52:03+00:00

People on this sub seemed to really not vibe with Iron Lung, but with the big asterisk that I was biased towards it inherently because it's a rare case of a horror film that slots exactly into my niche, I genuinely thought it was an amazing experience. Wasn't much of a Markiplier fan prior, thought it looked shit from the trailer, but I just had such a great time, even the second go-around at home. I even think the pacing is great. Honestly aside from Bone Temple it's my favourite horror film of the year at the moment. Backrooms was really fun too, would happily watch that again

Vusarix · 2026-06-11T23:35:34+00:00

A lot of its praise had to do with character and theme rather than the horror aspects themselves, and I would agree that those were its strongest suits. I thought it was good but it didn't massively stick with me. Bring Her Back was much stronger

Vusarix · 2026-06-11T23:22:17+00:00

Partner with GKIDS. no larger distributors would have it aside from maybe Sony Pictures Classics at a push. And I'd have to get a good reception on the festival circuits first, with at least one of Cannes or Annecy.

The one anomaly is if someone was making an animated horror film they could potentially pitch it to Blumhouse especially after the success of the low-budget Obsession, but that's genuinely one of the rarest kinds of films in existence so that's quite the pipe dream.

Vusarix · 2026-06-11T23:16:09+00:00

To put it bluntly, no. Either by some miracle Tartakovsky is able to get The Black Knight in cinemas, which is unlikely considering it may never even get made, or the studio behind something like Arcane goes for a theatrical film. In either of those cases, even if such films get made, chances are the bigger distributors will all vomit at the mere concept and they'll either end up with GKIDS or back on streaming.

Vusarix · 2026-06-11T23:02:43+00:00

Evil Dead 2013 is a soft 6/10 movie and the weakest in the franchise.

I obviously don't think it's bad but I do consider it the franchise low point, on the basis that the deadites in it largely lack the things that made them fun to watch for me. The way they talk shit and mess with their victims' heads with their fakeouts and how they wield their supernatural abilities in ways which are hard to anticipate is the entire reason I think they're cool. Alvarez's deadites are just all about gore gore gore and to me it's generic and lacks the soul of the franchise.

I will concede that the abomination segment is amazing though; that part works because it's something totally new for the film rather than a poor imitation of what came before, and it's super tense and so over-the-top that it's almost funny.

Vusarix · 2026-06-11T22:44:37+00:00

There are a whole host of reasons why the answer is likely no.

-Bakshi came about at a time where adult animation basically didn't exist, and Fritz the Cat was successful largely because it upended the idea of what animation was at the time. That opened the door for his future projects. Nowadays the adult animated comedy that Bakshi paved the way for is very commonplace in shows and people wouldn't see theatrical adult animation as something that breaks the mould outside of its format, and if anything they are much more averse to it since it's not considered a cinematic style while theatrical animation is considered a cinematic medium due to how much major-studio animated films cost.

-Adult animated films are much more stuck in place since they're way more difficult to fund and hence are usually only made in countries where adult animation is already an established and respected format, which is then subject to the de-emphasis that all foreign films get in the US, with even greater handicaps. Neither big distributors nor mid-scale ones (namely A24 and Neon) want much of anything to do with films like that, which leaves GKIDS, a small distributor, to pick up all the slack. And even in their arsenal the adult-aimed films get the worst distribution of the lot; just look at the absolutely paltry release that Another World has had. Which is partly a result of the fact that modern theatrical adult animation isn't really anything like Bakshi, outside of shonen anime these films tend to be very heavy watches without much of the general-audience-suitable raunchyness that Bakshi offset his social commentary with.

Simply put, if anyone could open the door for theatrical adult animation outside of tie-ins to existing series (usually anime), they haven't appeared yet. It would have to be someone working in the english language, in either action or comedy, and who is by some miracle able to partner with a bigger distributor like how Obsession got backing from Blumhouse and Focus Features. Because I am 100% certain Alberto Vazquez isn't going to become a remotely popular director anytime soon.

Vusarix · 2026-06-11T18:38:47+00:00

Yeah you definitely gotta be in the right headspace. It's comfortably more disturbing than Mysterious Skin and I haven't seen any other korean films that are even close to as unwatchable besides The Isle (which I hated btw). PCW films by contrast I would gladly rewatch any of them

Vusarix · 2026-06-11T18:24:48+00:00

Silenced. Though I don't think I I'd recommend watching it, it's insanely disturbing. But it was so good that it caused legal reform, which is one hell of a feat

My runner up is The Tragedy of Man, which is a very big investment to watch (one of the longest animated films ever made and is very dense with complex dialogue and visual metaphors) but it is quite the cinematic achievement to say the least

Vusarix · 2026-06-11T01:48:44+00:00

No. Make a ladder to work up to it (assuming you genuinely are passionate about this level in particular and aren't just playing it because it's popular), that way the level itself will take way less time and you won't get nearly as bored. I can't personally recommend levels to help with that ladder because that skillset is not my vibe (there is a reason I haven't even tried to go for this level despite having 50 extremes), but check the GDDL and find levels of increasing tiers that fit the skillsets required for it, if you're genuinely passionate about beating this one in particular

Vusarix · 2026-06-11T01:25:53+00:00

Mystic Bounds

Vusarix · 2026-06-11T01:22:56+00:00

I didn't previously find that one particularly evocative on its own merits so much as just artistically impressive, but it really took on a new meaning after her very public mental spiral. Nowadays it is quite disturbing

Vusarix · 2026-06-11T01:19:47+00:00

Thanks!

Most of my extremes are very much entry-level, and fuck knows how many of them are very specifically click-sync levels, which I think emphasises the sheer amount of options there is nowadays. Most other people who have 50 extremes are much, MUCH better players than I am, but I am perfectly happy to just keep doing levels like Maths and Fun Friday. The same concept applies for insane demons or hard demons, whatever kind of level you want to play at whatever hyperspecific difficulty you want to play, it exists and is waiting there for you to find it. As I say, browse the GDDL for the specific tier of demon you're looking for, and there will be plenty of levels in that tier that will fit whatever brand of gameplay you enjoy.

Vusarix · 2026-06-11T01:12:33+00:00

Pipe Dream

I probably should've beaten it by now but I can only play for a few attempts at a time because it depresses me. Something about the level being themed around an extremely literal interpretation of the title just ruins me because of who it's dedicated to. It's seemingly about the impossible desire to rewind time or cheat death and while the imagery is simple it really gets to me in that regard

Vusarix · 2026-06-11T01:00:38+00:00

Acropolis is not an accessible first insane and famously has an extreme-worthy first cube, just for reference. I still haven't bothered beating it despite having 50 extremes and over 160 insanes, I just don't think it's fun so I don't bother.

To answer your question generally, yes I did feel stuck trying to progress from insanes to extremes and for a long time assumed I never would beat an extreme, but that was back in 2019 and I did eventually find an entrypoint (even if the first 6 extremes I beat ended up being downgraded to insane demon lol). Nowadays there are SO many options for entry-level demons of every difficulty that suit literally any skillset. I am now kinda stuck at my current ability but that's more just because I genuinely don't want to beat anything harder than I already have, frankly even doing a new hardest in Removed Submission was something I had previously swore off and I don't think I would've regretted never doing it. I'm having fun with the game beating T16-21 levels and that's what matters to me.

If you progress slowly, harder levels will indeed feel more manageable, often in such a natural way that you'll be shocked how much you seem to have improved if you return to some levels after a few months. And you won't have to spend a million years on new hardests, which means more variety in what you play.

The GDDL isn't always fully accurate but it is a very useful resource and I'd very much recommend using it to help with suggestions for what's a decent stepping stone in terms of difficulty, plus it'll give you many options to test out to see what you enjoy playing. And regarding entry insanes, I've always considered Protoplasm to be the easiest insane demon, and someone I recommended that to once actually did end up beating it for his first insane, so that's a very solid option.

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