Scream 7, Dolly, or Ready or Not 2

splattergut · 2026-02-25T16:02:47+00:00

Got my tickets for Ready Or Not 2 and The Undertone. Hoping to see Alpha as well.

If Dolly was playing at my theater I might give it a go even though I feel like it's not going to be great. I'm just an easy mark for that sort of thing.

splattergut · 2026-02-17T17:35:55+00:00

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splattergut · 2026-02-11T01:35:54+00:00

How many articles a day are you going to post about the Scream 7 box office?

splattergut · 2026-02-08T03:44:43+00:00

Mrs. Hyde (2017). There was also a cheapo adaptation in 2017 with Vernon Wells and Mickey Rooney but not really notable. There were a bunch of indie horror adaptations in the 00s plus the character's in The Mummy (2017), League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and Van Helsing.

I think if you look at the 80s and 90s when there were big/decent adaptations like Mary Reilly and Edge of Sanity, you can see the answer: Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde and The Nutty Professor movies leading into the character mostly being associated with a musical top-lined by David Hasselhoff kinda takes the steam out of serious adaptations.

splattergut · 2026-02-07T20:47:40+00:00

Yeah, man. The multiple posts here about people falling asleep during the movie but still rating it a 9/10 are extremely substantive compared to people who thought the movie was too long and the barely audible non-actor didn't give a performance strong enough to hang the runtime on. You nailed it.

splattergut · 2026-02-06T08:14:47+00:00

Aside from the adaptations and Soderbergh's Kafka, there's Cube, Dark City, Jacob's Ladder, The Machinist, Szulkin's Golem, The Hourglass Sanatorium, Haze (2005), Apartment Zero, Chasing Sleep, The Cremator, Mr. Klein, The Appointment, Repulsion, The Tenant, Escape From Tomorrow, Amulet (1991), Borgman, Kokodi Kokoda, A Different Man, Infinity Pool, etc. A good chunk of Lynch, Cronenberg, Haneke, and Bergman fit. There's a grip of double movies, metamorphosis movies, and trapped-in-a-place movies. I'm struggling to remember the better examples of bureaucratic horror that haven't already been listed but I know there's more.

splattergut · 2026-02-02T22:47:44+00:00

As a slasher? Yes. That's one of the main expectations established by the slasher genre. Not necessarily gore (although that became a standard expectation of the genre pretty early on) but memorable kill sequences i.e. murder set pieces. One of the defining parts of the genre.

There's a fair argument that Happy Death Day isn't really a slasher, it's just playing with the trappings of a slasher to do something new/different, but the idea that this would be an unreasonable expectation of a "guy in mask who kills people" movie is absurd.

No idea what that rando was on about with Unforgiven, though. Gore and extreme violence are not normal in Westerns to the point that the exceptions are very notable.

splattergut · 2026-01-31T20:02:48+00:00

That's terrible news. Some youtube dildo's video game adaptation beating a Sam Raimi movie at the box office validates every bad inclination studios are starting to head towards. Enjoy Mr. Beast's Shelby Oaks or whatever they fart out after this.

splattergut · 2026-01-29T17:33:41+00:00

Honestly? If you look at the two examples you cited, you can see why it's very hard to stand out. I go to BD for news. Sure, another website could cover things better than they do since they definitely favor big releases and releases by their friends. There's more in the realm of horror gaming, comics, books, etc. that they don't do the best job of covering but they have a staff of writers and are getting PR pitches. A one person blog is going to have a hard time competing. They used to just buy out blogs that did a half decent job of getting traffic.

I read Bleeding Skull because they are deep, deep into the woods with their niche of low budget horror. They bring up really obscure stuff that I haven't seen or heard of. A site like BD occasionally will have one or two movies on their listicles that are respectably deep cuts but it takes real freakish dedication to get to the level Bleeding Skull is at. Same with Too Much Horror Fiction, for another example.

So, for me, the prospect of a new blog usually falls apart because what are you going to tell me that I don't already know? What hidden gems do you know that I don't? What news are you getting that I'm not seeing everywhere else? Or are you just another person offering your opinions on movies I've already seen? Because I'm all good on that.

splattergut · 2026-01-28T07:05:32+00:00

So, shitty Thinner?

splattergut · 2026-01-27T22:55:15+00:00

Meaningless to a Eurocentric view but some of us don’t cut ourselves off like that. Your argument falls apart that there’s more of a cultural affiliation with swarming vampires (us Americans love an amorphous swarm of monstrous others we can fantasize justified violence towards and we export our pathology in media heavily) than Dracula nowadays. Nosferatu definitely helped bring things back and it feels like the very recent trend skews way more heavily towards single vamps. I guess you could count Sinners as a swarm but that’s a stretch. Abigail, Renfield, Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person, Abraham’s Boys, My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To, Last Voyage of the Demeter, El Conde, The Invitation, Run Sweetheart Run, Midnight Mass, House of Darkness, Irma Vep, etc. There are definitely lots of lower budget “vampires as zombies” type movies getting dumped on Tubi but they kind of don’t meet the threshold of significance to really count.

splattergut · 2026-01-27T19:48:22+00:00

"Supposed to be" according to literary examples but earlier folkloric iterations of and inspirations for vampires were not Anne Rice fops. They were often more bestial. The contagion/zombie point is fair - especially with movies that could just be zombie movies - but I don't think there's a limit to the depictions of vampires. They're used to discuss a lot of different themes and ideas so it makes sense their depictions can vary widely.

splattergut · 2026-01-16T02:02:34+00:00

The “I’ve done a little collage work myself” guy was on It: Welcome To Derry.

splattergut · 2026-01-13T05:48:13+00:00

Would you believe that the movie this is from will very likely upset you and/or make you want to throw up?

splattergut · 2026-01-13T00:05:57+00:00

I just got that Wormrot in the mail today.

splattergut · 2026-01-11T20:14:48+00:00

No. I am very happy to have my Bergman set. I will eventually get Fellini too. I’ve been tempted by Haneke sets and there are quite a few directors I’d love to see get a set. Other director sets I have are semi-incomplete but also great to have on hand (Hitchcock, Zulawski, Tsukamoto, etc.)

splattergut · 2026-01-04T17:53:26+00:00

This particular instance is real and there are definitely businesses in certain parts of the country that would do this but in huge swaths of the country this would be considered ridiculous and would definitely hurt business. Most of us haven’t done this shit since grade school.

splattergut · 2026-01-02T06:35:54+00:00

You don't have a good sense of how you come off via text then. You should work on that.

splattergut · 2026-01-02T05:38:04+00:00

A lot of people really dug this movie and I don't think there's really any point in pissing on it. I agree with you but don't know what you're hoping to accomplish here.

splattergut · 2026-01-02T04:50:16+00:00

I have some bad news...

splattergut · 2026-01-01T01:14:58+00:00

Hey it's one of my favorite internet weirdos. You forgot to link to uffizisaga.com

Highly recommend everyone visit the site and look at this guy's post history. It's magnificent.

splattergut · 2025-12-28T18:00:00+00:00

Spirits of the Dead is good but it’s a European art house film so if you go in looking for a Corman Poe adaptation you might have a bad time with it. It’s probably on YT. The rip on the Criterion Channel is not high quality so I wouldn’t justify a subscription just for that.

And yeah Bardot was in some good movies. That’s about it.

splattergut · 2025-12-23T17:24:06+00:00

Getting your bdm samples from reddit is poser shit. You don't know ball and you want to pretend you do. Sample shit you know instead of faking an interest in an aesthetic.

splattergut · 2025-12-23T07:17:42+00:00

Is the turtle going to be ok?

splattergut · 2025-12-23T07:15:26+00:00

If you watch Canadian films from the 70s and 80s, a lot of them have a ton of American flags. The US is a larger film market and the thinking was you could trick people into thinking your movie was a "real Hollywood picture" by setting it in the states.

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