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RE: Horror Survivor

Before I had a over complicated stat spread for every character when it came to Horror Survivor, and wanted to simplify it to five stats, while doing research I referenced a few of my favorite games. Dead by Daylight became my final stop and for both killer and survivor there are three categories post game for how well you did or did not do.

Using the before hand D6 method of my old spread I averaged the old stats into three categories that I should have used from the get go.

Outwit (Mental and Social Game), Outplay (Physicality) and Outlast (Luck and Special Powers). With a score of 1 symbolizing weak and a score of 6 symbolizing powerful we now have a much more simplified version of my old stats which were STR, DEX, CON, INT, EDU, SOC, REL, LUK, POW (Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution converted into Outplay. Intelligence, Education and Social converted into Outwit. Religion, Luck and Power turned into Outlast to cap off the original two seasons stats).

I'm going to be editing Season One to make sure the original winner could potentially still win with the stat rework I've already implemented for future seasons.

In honor of DBD being what helped me simplify my overly complicated rule set Season Three will be the all Dead by Daylight x Survivor season so if there's any survivor or killer you want to see that is fully original to Dead by Daylight let me know.

For simplification and setting purpose the Horror Survivor universe takes place in the fog, and thus allows Vampires or other night-based monsters to play the game of Horror Survivor.

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Iron Lung was an experience I needed in theaters, this is what is probably our generation's equivalent to seeing George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead (my partner's words) or (for me) Ridley Scott's Alien. It's great to see independent film on this level of ANY genre let alone the Horror and Sci-Fi genres.

This is comparable to when in 2024 we had Terrifier 3 release, this is a Horror accomplishment and milestone we got to live and experience. The only thing I will tell you about Iron Lung is that at no point is there a cheap "gotcha" jumpscare, and to be a first time horror director Mark showed such a great sense of self control by avoiding the classic loud noise / boo scare.

Please go see this film while it is in theaters it is an absolute must, but know that it is a slow burn / powder keg. The only thing I didn't like about my experience was I wasn't aware of when the movie actually started. I think this was more of a theater I saw it in issue as opposed to it being a Mark issue.

I hope it gets a physical release soon.

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1 and 6?

1. This oddly is a hard one for me because it's been years since I've sat down and watched a purely werewolf centric movie. A lot of my favorite werewolves are in short vignettes in either anthologies or campy action horror movies. So I'll go full camp and say Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009)

However, Trick 'R Treat (2007) has my favorite werewolf scene in horror movies. I've seen Ginger Snaps and An American Werewolf in London, but it's been 15+ years since I've watched them so i couldn't in good faith use those as my answer.

6. Green Room (2016) if you include the punk music on the soundtrack and Raw (2017) if it's purely soundtrack.

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Horror Movie Asks

Send me a number and I'll tell you my favourite: 1. Werewolf movie 2. Horror special effects 3. Vampire movie 4. Zombie movie 5. Slasher 6. Horror soundtrack 7. Character design 8. Kill/character death 9. Horror movie with fantasy elements 10. Horror director 11. Horror subgenre 12. Theme/topic in horror 13. Horror protagonist 14. Horror movie from before 1950 15. Horror remake 16. Villain 17. Horror locale/setting 18. Horro sequel 19. Non-horror movie with horror elements 20. Fun fact about a horror movie

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I'm changing up the formatting of this to be a bit more casual, and as a way to diary / journal about horror media outside of my podcasts umbrella.

Mostly, I want to go on hyperspecific rants about what I resonate with in the horror genre (more than just the movies). Maybe it's a way to deal with my constant anxiety about exposing myself to strangers (which BxN has helped), but I'm hoping to use this as a way to also unlearn a lot of my biases and grow a bit more as a person.

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As a physical media collector, my two biggest obstacles are:

1) is this movie in my region code (I've had a few that did not play in American region codes)

and

2) this is on streaming only?! Fuck

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Recently Viewed: The Ghost Station

Despite its apparent lack of narrative complexity, it’s difficult to properly classify Yong-ki Jeong’s The Ghost Station. Is it a throwback/homage to the J-horror masterpieces of the late nineties/early aughts (e.g., Ring, Ju-On: The Grudge)—or a shameless, shallow rip-off thereof? In any case, it’s undeniably formulaic; familiar, tried-and-true tropes and clichés that may have been perfectly functional in the source material (the film is an adaptation of a webcomic) simply feel derivative in a movie. This story has been told in this medium before. Dozens of times.

Two decades ago.

And Ghost Station adds precious little to the conversation.

The style in equally uninspired; indeed, I would characterize the direction as “haphazard.” I appreciate a good split diopter shot as much as the next pretentious cinephile, but here, the technique is implemented with such reckless abandon (and always utilizing the same basic framing/composition—at least Brian De Palma understood the value of variety) that the appeal wears off rather quickly. The visuals are otherwise serviceable at best, falling into the all-too-common trap of mistaking rapid cuts and abrupt jump scares for atmosphere and suspense.

And yet… there’s just barely enough thematic substance lurking beneath the surface of the (ankle-deep) plot to almost redeem the experience. The protagonist, an aspiring journalist forced to “make her bones” by writing for a sleazy online tabloid, is particularly compelling; while she’s obviously flawed—she is absolutely relentless in her pursuit of a juicy scoop, often at the expense of her fellow man—she has genuinely sympathetic motivations, allowing her to remain endearing even as she veers into morally ambiguous territory. Her internal conflict elevates the drama, touching on such relevant social issues as the predominance of sensationalism in the corporate news cycle, the dehumanizing exploitation of consumer culture, and the gradual erosion of privacy in the Internet Age.

None of this makes Ghost Station “good” in the conventional sense, of course; ultimately, it’s still superficial, disposable, and utterly forgettable—I believe the kids these days would describe it as “mid.” Nevertheless, it's entertaining in its own bland, generic, inoffensive way (its problematic depictions of gender nonconformity notwithstanding).

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Just saw the remake of The Invasion of the Body Snatchers for my first time. I'm in love, new addition to my top 10

I didn't expect the slow burn. The nihilism or the body horror all matched up with tender, soft, loving moments. I never heard of this film discussed, and the fact that I hated Leonard Nimoy so passionately. I only have ever seen him as Spock, and let me say I love his portrail of a two-faced evil.

I put this on so I could watch something with Donald Sutherland (due to his recent passing away), and I hope that faced with the ultimate end of humanity that we, like Matthew, go out swinging with anarchistic rebellion.

I always loved the remake of The Thing, and this feels like it's older sibling or as my life partner put it "this is what would've happened if the creature made it out of Outpost 31".

What happened to good horror remakes like these films specifically?

Anyway thanks if you've read through this post, this film struck a few chords for me.

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Good Boy (2022)

I like a movie that has the guts to go bleak.

However I did think I was going to get more of :

+

And not as much of:

+

I don't know how else to really talk about Good Boy without major spoilers, but damn was I surprised once the hat dropped.

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Cargo (2017) and Maggie (2015) are great zombie movies that don't even focus on the infected as much as coming to terms with the infection.

If you're a fan of stories like The Last of Us, you should check out these movies. Maggie even had someone from TLoU on its directive team.

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I did a top 10 favorite but let's give our bottom 10, the least favorite horror movies we've seen.

In order from 10 to 1, here is my least favorites ranked.

10. The Fog (2005)

9. Cry_Wolf (2005)

8. Retro Puppet Master (1999)

7. Carrie (2002)

6. Dracula (1931)

5. Hostel 3 (2011)

4. Curse of the Puppet Master (1998)

3. Doll Graveyard (2005)

2. The Omen (2006)

1. Puppet Master The Legacy (2003)

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My friend Grace and I watched 2013's Evil Dead, and our head cannon is that Eric (Erik?) had romantic feelings for David, which is why until his final moments he's cold and closed off to David.

We also imagine that David had no clue, and still doesn't which makes Eric's last moments of seeing David tragic imo

He told David he didn't want to be Satan's bitch, and David left him in the cellar to bloat in the water. Eric might have been the reason shit fell apart, but man, did he deserve better.

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The first time I watched Skinamarink, I was beyond exhausted and was halfway between awake and asleep. I feel like weirdly that made the movie so much more nightmarish than it already is.

If you like The Backrooms or House of Leaves, give Skinamarink a chance.

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inflicting yall with the anxiety and dread this sound now produces in me

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EVIL DEAD (2013) Dir. Fede Álvarez

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I watched the Japanese horror film House (1977), and honestly I still don't 100% know what I watched but I loved it.