I had a bad night so I defaulted to watching ''They Live" and "Evil Dead 2".

Burrito of Peace wrote on Sep 13, 2024, 19:56:

Beamer wrote on Sep 13, 2024, 17:20:
Toxic Avenger was a favorite series when I was a kid, but it's rough now. Not rough as in production values, which is what you expect from Troma, but rough as in "who the hell thought that was a good idea." Which is the point, but limits have shifted in some places but not others over the past 35 years, expectedly.

I tend to watch movies in the context of the era in which they were made. For example, I recently found a good, clean, high quality rip of The Birth of a Nation that someone had clearly done a lot of restoration work on. Is it racist as Hell? Oh yes. Was it then? Also yes but it was much, much more acceptable when it was filmed than it is today. I'd not watched it previously but had read a lot about it. So I watched it.

Back on to cheesy 80s horror flicks:

The Wraith - 80s metal, 80s cars, and 80s sensibilities. What's not to love?
They Live - Vapid, rampant consumerism, world government conspiracies, and Rowdy Roddy Piper chewing scenery like a fat kid tears into candy.
Galaxy of Terror - Delightfully terrible horror knock-off of Star Wars
Lifeforce - Space vampires, synth music and, best of all, a very naked Mathilda May for a very long time. Chef's kiss. No notes.
Night of the Comet - Probably the definitive 80s post-apocalyptic, mindless consumerism mocking, zombie movie.
Puppet Master - Full Moon Productions at the height of their glory days with stop motion killer puppets.
Bad Taste - Peter Jackson's gonzo take on a horror movie with so much blood, your local Red Cross is red with envy.
The Slumber Party Massacre - Another iconic 80s horror movie featuring scantily clad babes, a psycho with a penchant for killing with a drill, and a guitar that is also a murderous drill.
Ghoulies - Low budget horror's answer to Gremlines. Gory, cheesy, and tasteless. But so very "so bad it's good".

That's enough for now, I think.

It's some of the F bombs (not those ones) and the laughing at those less fortunate that doesn't hold up. The other over the top does.
I largely see movies of my youth through my wife's eyes, who doesn't have the nostalgia, and something like Toxic Avenger just feels tasteless in the wrong ways while also being tasteless in the right.

The Wraith is a stone cold classic to me. One of the outright best.

american werewolf in london, though that might've been late 70s. close enough.
critters. they're all the same - space gremlins. one of the good guys is a shape changer who has a habit of shifting into a playboy playmate with exceptional tits XD
the thing. a severed head grows spider legs and skitters around. and i saw that as an elementary school kid man. fuck me. for the longest time i thought it was a fading nightmare until i saw the scene again.
the night flyer - came out in '97 but based on a stephen king story from '88. the most horrifying vampire flick i've ever seen, and i've seen a lot.

Beamer wrote on Sep 13, 2024, 17:20:
Toxic Avenger was a favorite series when I was a kid, but it's rough now. Not rough as in production values, which is what you expect from Troma, but rough as in "who the hell thought that was a good idea." Which is the point, but limits have shifted in some places but not others over the past 35 years, expectedly.

I tend to watch movies in the context of the era in which they were made. For example, I recently found a good, clean, high quality rip of The Birth of a Nation that someone had clearly done a lot of restoration work on. Is it racist as Hell? Oh yes. Was it then? Also yes but it was much, much more acceptable when it was filmed than it is today. I'd not watched it previously but had read a lot about it. So I watched it.

Back on to cheesy 80s horror flicks:

The Wraith - 80s metal, 80s cars, and 80s sensibilities. What's not to love?
They Live - Vapid, rampant consumerism, world government conspiracies, and Rowdy Roddy Piper chewing scenery like a fat kid tears into candy.
Galaxy of Terror - Delightfully terrible horror knock-off of Star Wars
Lifeforce - Space vampires, synth music and, best of all, a very naked Mathilda May for a very long time. Chef's kiss. No notes.
Night of the Comet - Probably the definitive 80s post-apocalyptic, mindless consumerism mocking, zombie movie.
Puppet Master - Full Moon Productions at the height of their glory days with stop motion killer puppets.
Bad Taste - Peter Jackson's gonzo take on a horror movie with so much blood, your local Red Cross is red with envy.
The Slumber Party Massacre - Another iconic 80s horror movie featuring scantily clad babes, a psycho with a penchant for killing with a drill, and a guitar that is also a murderous drill.
Ghoulies - Low budget horror's answer to Gremlines. Gory, cheesy, and tasteless. But so very "so bad it's good".

That's enough for now, I think.

Beamer wrote on Sep 13, 2024, 15:20:
Has anyone here played Selaco yet?

I felt like a shooter, so I tried Ion Fury. I spent a LOT of time in Build games, but and enjoyed this for 10 minutes, but after 30 minutes or so of playing I realized it wasn't making me feel great. I'm sure I'd adapt to the motion with time, but... why? I wasn't loving it enough to stick with that.

So I tried Selaco, another retro shooter, and holy crap. Again, only 30 minutes or so into it, but this game is awesome. The weapons feel so damn good. It's a Doom engine game, more or less, but plays like a cross between Half Life (maybe HL2) and FEAR.

I played Warhammer 40K Boltgun a couple of months ago, but it didn't grab me. It's very highly rated, so you might add that to your list. I'll check out Selaco.

Burrito of Peace wrote on Sep 13, 2024, 16:45:

Prez wrote on Sep 13, 2024, 16:27:
For those of you who partake in cheesy 80's horror which is your favorite Friday the 13th movie?

Hmmm...80s and cheesy? That's a tough one for "favorite". Toxic Avenger and Chopping Mall come to mind.

Note you did not set the qualifier of "good".

Toxic Avenger was a favorite series when I was a kid, but it's rough now. Not rough as in production values, which is what you expect from Troma, but rough as in "who the hell thought that was a good idea." Which is the point, but limits have shifted in some places but not others over the past 35 years, expectedly.

Chopping Mall is always great. I've taken my wife through a ton of cheesy 80s horror, and that was among her favorites.

Prez, Mad Mullet Jack is on my list.
As for best Friday the 13th, most aren't really good, because they're low budget 1980s dead kid horror movies which means you get about 10 minutes of action and 70 minutes of wooden actors whining about teen problems or doing things no kid would ever actually do. That said, I'd say that Jason Takes Manhattan is mostly boring but has some of the most "what the fuck" things going on, Jason X is way underrated, Jason Goes to Hell is unwatchable, 6 has the best theme song (I met Alice Cooper last weekend!), and 4 is the best overall.

The Stuff wasn't meant to be scary I don't think. It was an astoundingly prescient send up of consumerism though.

I just watched The Stuff for the first time and was... not impressed. I was also this past weekend disappointed after having finally watched Late Night With the Devil. For all the buzz that movie had, it was pretty dull and not the least bit scary. The whole opening narrated by Michael Ironside was pointless and way too long.

Chopping Mall is not good, but it's also fantastic. So stupid and immensely fun.

I actually was asking specifically about the Jason Vorhees movies. I think that I have seen all of them but I know that I didn't like half of them. There was only like 127 of them. I think that I liked the one where he is in space the best. That was so stupid but so fun and had some genuinely cool kills.

As for genuinely good 80's horror, my favorite is Hellraiser I think. Wow that movie got me. Pinhead is a horror legend.

EDIT: I almost forgot "The Thing". Probably because it is one of my favorite movies of all time of any genre.

This comment was edited on Sep 13, 2024, 17:17.

Prez wrote on Sep 13, 2024, 16:27:
For those of you who partake in cheesy 80's horror which is your favorite Friday the 13th movie?

Hmmm...80s and cheesy? That's a tough one for "favorite". Toxic Avenger and Chopping Mall come to mind.

Note you did not set the qualifier of "good".

The Half Elf wrote on Sep 13, 2024, 13:57:
Ok tech people I gotta question. Is there any way to make a custom email address? I was joking with someone and said my email was blah@earth.fu
Is there anyway to get a earth.fu email address?

TOTALLY NOT ASKING FOR A FRIEND

Yup. Register the domain, set the MX record in your DNS provider, and have your favorite email host that allows custom domains to send and receive mail for that domain.

There are custom domain email providers that will do the setup work for you. I've never used any of them.

Beamer wrote on Sep 13, 2024, 15:20:
Has anyone here played Selaco yet?

I felt like a shooter, so I tried Ion Fury. I spent a LOT of time in Build games, but and enjoyed this for 10 minutes, but after 30 minutes or so of playing I realized it wasn't making me feel great. I'm sure I'd adapt to the motion with time, but... why? I wasn't loving it enough to stick with that.

So I tried Selaco, another retro shooter, and holy crap. Again, only 30 minutes or so into it, but this game is awesome. The weapons feel so damn good. It's a Doom engine game, more or less, but plays like a cross between Half Life (maybe HL2) and FEAR.

I played a demo. It was the best boomer shooter I've played in a very long time. The effects, while a bit busy for me because of my disability, were absolutely spectacular and I had to check three times that this was running on gzDoom. I would have said it was flatly impossible to do what they did, but here we are. I put it on my wishlist as soon as the demo was done.

While we're on the topic of insane boomer shooters, Mullet Mad Jack was easily the fastest and wildest. You literally have 10 seconds before you die. You can only extend that through insane violence. It's nuts, but I know that I would love it if it didn't make me so dizzy that I had to lie down.

This comment was edited on Sep 13, 2024, 16:48.

For those of you who partake in cheesy 80's horror which is your favorite Friday the 13th movie?

Has anyone here played Selaco yet?

I felt like a shooter, so I tried Ion Fury. I spent a LOT of time in Build games, but and enjoyed this for 10 minutes, but after 30 minutes or so of playing I realized it wasn't making me feel great. I'm sure I'd adapt to the motion with time, but... why? I wasn't loving it enough to stick with that.

So I tried Selaco, another retro shooter, and holy crap. Again, only 30 minutes or so into it, but this game is awesome. The weapons feel so damn good. It's a Doom engine game, more or less, but plays like a cross between Half Life (maybe HL2) and FEAR.

Burrito of Peace wrote on Sep 13, 2024, 10:59:
It's Friday the 13th and that means....HORROR MOVIE DAY!

\m/

Though, to be fair, pretty much every day is horror movie day in my house.

Ch...ch...ch...hah...hah...hah...

I've been on a horror bent lately so I'll watch another one tonight for sure. Maybe something Hammer.

Ok tech people I gotta question. Is there any way to make a custom email address? I was joking with someone and said my email was blah@earth.fu
Is there anyway to get a earth.fu email address?

TOTALLY NOT ASKING FOR A FRIEND

fujiJuice wrote on Sep 13, 2024, 11:50:
It also means my Steam account turns 21 years old today so it can buy the beer.

Impressive. I'm only in my 17th year.

Burrito of Peace wrote on Sep 13, 2024, 10:59:
It's Friday the 13th and that means....HORROR MOVIE DAY!

\m/

Though, to be fair, pretty much every day is horror movie day in my house.

Hell yeah!

It also means my Steam account turns 21 years old today so it can buy the beer.

It's Friday the 13th and that means....HORROR MOVIE DAY!

\m/

Though, to be fair, pretty much every day is horror movie day in my house.