• Wolf@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Otis Driftwood from House of 1000 Corpses. He has no supernatural powers.

    I have lived around crazy rednecks all my life (Indiana and Florida). Pretty sure I could outwit 1 crazy redneck, and with 3 Billion I could afford to finally escape this hellhole.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      7 days ago

      Otis Driftwood from House of 1000 Corpses. He has no supernatural powers.

      Am I misremembering the end of that movie, or does it end up getting kind of supernatural? Don’t remember if Otis himself did anything though…

      • Wolf@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        7 days ago

        It definitely gets weird towards the end and I think it’s meant to be sorta ambiguous/ open to interpretation.

        From what I can recall (it’s been a while) and from watching the sequels, I think Otis and Co were just psycho rednecks, but I could be wrong about that.

        • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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          6 days ago

          It’s been years for me as well… For some reason though, I can distinctly picture the end House of 1000 Corpses, when they’re in like Satan’s lair under the house and it’s definitely supernatural lol… But yeah, they don’t really explicitly explain what’s happening. If I recall, they were like harvesting corpses for satan or some form of extreme evil that lived under the house?

          • Wolf@lemmy.todayEnglish
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            6 days ago

            I stand corrected. I’ll have to give it a rewatch at some point. I remember thinking it was a decent flick

            • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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              6 days ago

              Yeah but like you said it’s not really explained and if I remember, it’s a pretty quick turn at the end when the kid(s) who were still alive were trying to escape. They like stumbled into this bizarre lair with some weird shit going down.

              The majority of it isn’t supernatural I don’t think. I’ve only ever seen Devil’s Rejects in terms of the “sequels”, and it was fine but I don’t think there was anything supernatural (unless someone seems to die, but comes back? Been a really long time).

              But yeah, I loved that movie back in high school. I remember it being solid. I kind of don’t want to watch it again in case it doesn’t hold up.

              I just remembered: Isn’t Dwight Schrute one of the main characters?

              • Wolf@lemmy.todayEnglish
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                6 days ago

                So, our conversation got me intrigued enough to actually rewatch it. Yes, Dwight is in it, I had no idea. Crazy to see him looking so young. Also staring the great Walton Goggins as a deputy sheriff and Chris Hardwick who I had totally forgotten about.

                I don’t think I’ve actually seen the 3rd movie myself. I wasn’t too impressed with ‘The Devils Rejects’ tbh.

                As far as the supernatural elements go, I could see it interpreted either way honestly. When they lower Jerry and Denise into Dr. Satan’s lair, there are some what look like they could be zombies breaking them out of the coffin, before disappearing under the water, but they could also be some of the mental patients Dr.Satan was experimenting on. It seems like if they were zombies they wouldn’t have halted the attack, but it really makes little sense either way.

                The way I interpreted it was that Dr. Satan didn’t just ‘experiment’ on the mental patients and victims that the Firefly family had been providing him, but on himself and Earl (his ‘assistant’) as well. I did a little research and some people describe them as ‘Cyborg Demons’ and some just use their names.

                I’m pretty sure Dr. Satan was an actual human at one point at least, if his backstory can be belived. When Earl pulls off his ‘gas mask’ he definitely doesn’t look very human, but he is supposedly Mother Firefly’s husband and Tiny’s father. So he was probably human at one point himself. Maybe they got their demonic appearances by being possessed, by ‘cosmetic’ surgery or some combination of the two.

                One story has it that Rob Zombie pitched the idea for the movie to Universal without having a script, the name came from a Haunted House attraction that he had done for Universal Studios, and he just sort of made some shit up. After they Ok’d the project he went home and banged out a script. By writing this post I probably put more thought into the story than the did lol.

                Another thing I learned was that after the shooting, Universal dropped the project because they were sure it would get an NC-17 rating, and it took him another a few years to find a distributor. By the time he had, a lot of the original footage had been lost so he had to do some creative editing to get a somewhat coherent film and to get an R rating. I’m not sure if the original plot made more sense or not, but I kinda doubt it :)

                One other interesting bit I found was an interview with Zombie by bloody-disgusting.com

                Which raises the question, of course, of whether Dr. Satan’s appearance in House of 1,000 Corpses was ever real at all. We asked Rob Zombie where he stood on an ending that seemed straightforward, but which now, after a retcon, looks like it may all have been a dream.

                “I left it so that it could be whatever,” Zombie said. “Is it real? Is it probably just the girl, that Denise, after a long night of being tortured and watching all of her friends killed, maybe she just went cuckoo and was imagining all these crazy things? You know, I thought for that film it’s best just leave it as however people want to interpret it.”

                I’m not sure if that was his original intention, or if that is how he views it in light of the sequels,

                I kind of don’t want to watch it again in case it doesn’t hold up.

                I think it holds up pretty well for what it is. I view it as an homage to the all great ‘B’ grade horror movies of the 70’s and 80’s (which often made little sense themselves) and shot like a feature length music video. It’s just silly/gruesome fun.

                • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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                  5 days ago

                  Damn, I appreciate the well thought out reply… I had forgotten so much about the movie (forgot that guy had a name, let a lone “Dr. Satan” lol).

                  I just have the image when they first enter his lab/lair and everything is like red and he’s got this weird fucking mask on.

                  Anyway, I always enjoyed the indie-feel of it, which is why I think I also didn’t really like Devil’s Rejects as much (also, just something about the “haunted house” theme that Rob Zombie seemed to excel at).

                  Never been a huge fan of his music, but I always enjoyed that movie. I’ll have to watch it again.

                  Thanks for the discussion!

    • MotoAsh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 days ago

      I dunno’, what if it was one boss zombie, or like… uh is it Night of the Living Dead? Where individual zombie parts come back to life, to the point where burning them just spreads zombiejunk all over.

      One zombie of the right type could be a death sentence for the whole planet!

      • logicbomb@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        8 days ago

        The criteria is that it’s a horror villain of your choice. So, I don’t know why you’d choose a boss zombie or one of those really bad variants when you could choose one of the zombies from Shawn of the Dead.

        But I’m also not completely sure that a random zombie really counts as a “villain”.

        • MotoAsh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 days ago

          Yea, the “villain” requirement is definitely what makes me question what “any ol’ zombie” would end up being.

          If you asked for “zombie from Resident Evil”, would you be able to get a lumbering buffoon that’s no big deal, or Mr. X?

      • MotoAsh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        8 days ago

        That all looks like just more thermal imaging? Though it’s been yeaaaaars since I’ve seen Pred 2 so I have no memory of what it’s supposed to be story wise.

          • MotoAsh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            3 days ago

            Ahh, so presumably, while the literal footage is just more thermal imagery, story wise it was more than that? Thanks for confirming.

            • samus12345@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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              3 days ago

              Yeah, not sure if the imagery is all just the same thing in different colors or not, but the full scene’s in this clip. He sees their flashlight beams in the last view mode used.

    • Anomalocaris@lemm.eeEnglish
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      7 days ago

      as soon as the mud heats up you’ll be visible again

      you’ll have to change the mud frequently

  • Sunsofold@lemmings.worldEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Prompt says you’re being chased but nothing about the quality of the chase. I like the image of the predator being obligated to chase them but feeling kind of ashamed of it so they don’t really want to get the kill.

    Hunted: ‘*puff, wheeze* Just… gotta… get to the top… of the hill.’ Predator: *walks calmly up to just behind the hunted and makes a predator noise, then sits to wait for them to scramble the rest of the way up while the predator plays space-solitaire*

  • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Freddy Kruger, as long as I have prep time. Get a good night sleep the night before? Staying awake for 24 hours is pretty trivial. I can get up at 6 one morning and stay up til 6 the next morning. I’m willing to screw my sleep cycle up for a few days in exchange for 3 billion dollars.

  • CatherineLily@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Sadako. Her curse takes 7 days to take effect, assuming it’s gone once 24 hours are up. Else, Jaws can’t get you if you’re nowhere close to the sea.

  • defunct_punk@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Chucky just to prove to yall how easy it would be to defeat that doll. Shit, with $3b I’d pay Messi to kick him in a furnace on PPV and probably come out with even more money just off subs alone

    • Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.comEnglish
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      8 days ago

      Wasn’t one of his big things that he was supernaturally strong and resilient? It wasn’t just a doll; It was a doll that was possessed by the ghost of a serial killer. So there was some supernatural aspect to it that made it harder to destroy than most people would expect.

      • mriswith@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        8 days ago

        If you go by the early versions he is limited by his physical doll-form. He can’t fly, teleport, drive, etc. and he’s not really that strong, or fast.

        If you knew about him and that he was coming after you, it shouldn’t be that difficult.

          • MotoAsh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            8 days ago

            Naww, don’t you remember those few scenes with Chucky running past the camera? He can at least do 10 miles an hour on foot. Also he does know how to operate vehicles. He’s a serial killer stuck in a doll, not a magical doll with few human skills.

  • FaceDeer@fedia.io
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    9 days ago

    The thing from “It Follows” goes at a walking pace, I could hop in the car and drive a few hours out of town to spend the day at a nice park.

    • RagnarokOnline@programming.devEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Until a car accident and they put you on pain killers and don’t allow you to drive. You gonna end up Stranger Things’d in that hospital bed.

      • FaceDeer@fedia.io
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        9 days ago

        I mean, sure, you could always die of an unrelated accident at any time while you’re being chased by a monster. The specific monster hardly matters in that situation.

  • Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    I wanted to say Freddy, because 24 hours without sleep would be easy-peasy. …then I realized Im not a teenageer anymore and would probably take a nap anyways.

    • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      8 days ago

      Yeah it’s early afternoon here and I just realized that I someone told me I had to stay awake for the next 24 hours, I wouldn’t make it.

            • CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              8 days ago

              Actually physically addicted? Probably not. And you’d only need one, maybe two hits (assuming oral consumption, not smoked or IV) spread out over your 24 hours to get through it. However, the euphoric rush from the Meth would be pretty intense (the dopamine release is 5x-10x that of Adderall) and most of the dangers are from chronic use, so if you’re the kind of person who’s prone to risk-taking, it’s possible you could wind up rationalizing the risks away and continuing to use it, and wind up truly addicted down the road. This is basically the route most addicts take. There aren’t any substances that are so addictive that one use gets you physically hooked.

              It might be especially easy to fall down this path if you’re now a multi-billionaire and no longer have a need to work and thus need to find something new to occupy your time.

    • Grimy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      This would work with a small investment in hard drugs before hand. Depends on how much prep time and street cred you have.

      • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        7 days ago

        I’m an old boring dude, but if I got off caffeine for a week before hand, I’d have no trouble stay awake after my second cup that day.