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This.
No, its just genuinely better. The acting in the death version by Samuel is fucking awful and the jumpscare ghost is laughably bad.
The survive ending meanwhile actually leaves it off with an interesting disturbing idea (the recorder catching the dead daughter's voice).

Nah, I preferred that ending too, because the wife realizes he said the truth at the end. Also I might be misremembering but the Hotel manager turns up and implies he was in on everything... or maybe that was the bad ending.

I like how the almost comedic bits don't take away from the horror. It all works really well.

The part where he gets pissed off at the mini fridge is great

My only problem is that the film has like 30 different endings and it all changes depending where you watch it and what format you watch it on

That's the scene that came to my mind. He just btfo of that lil shit.

Its not a scary movie, but its atmosphere was great, Cusack's acting and freakouts were great, and unlike a lot of recent horror movies, it didn't really feel like it fell apart in the final act.

Thats the bad ending. He comes up to the wife at the funeral and goes "dude lmao your husband defeated the room".
Shits fucking retarded.

>Its not a scary movie
Ooh we got us a hard lad over here.

Ah, I knew it might have been the bad ending. And yes, it's a rare horror film one that doesn't suck completely at how it resolved things.

>Looking at you Pet Sematary

The new one? That was disappointing. The trailers made it look like those kids doing the funeral would be pivotal in tempting or egging on Ellie to do bad shit and nothing happens. Also the dad should’ve woken up to his whole family reanimated, not gage

I keep forgetting this is based on a Stephen King story.

That's what happens when a man does drugs and pumps out more books in a year than some authors put out in a lifetime. You just can't keep track of all his shit.

Didn't watch the trailer, but if so that's bullshit. I also thought the kids would've been far more important. I liked Ellie being the evil demonic child instead of Gage, but ending sucked.

This was my life in a nutshell

It feels more like an episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark than an actual horror film.

All I remember is that it had The Carpenters and it wasn't scary

I think it's super comfy, honestly. Good double feature with Secret Window, with the whole struggling-author-losing-his-mind kinda thing.

Five. This is five. Ignore the sirens. Even if you leave this room, you can never leave this room. Eight. This is eight. We have killed your friends. Every friend is now dead.

>American movie
>Shoes on the bed

Do people actually do this?

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I lived the life of a selfish man. But I don't have
to die that way. If I'm going down, I'm taking you with me. This may not all be real, and I may not even be real, but this fire... that's got to be real.

Once I was with so much cold that I only was able to sleep wearing my shoes. I washed the soles before using them in the bed; it helped me to survive the winter without heating.
Meanwhile, Gore merrily flies all over to save the planet.

I always loved the visual design of the white door. That moment where Cusack stares at the door, runs his hands through his hair, and then whispers, "Open it." And the door opens for him, opening into a void. That shit is pure kino.

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First act great. Second act great.
Third act absolute shit.

We've only just begun to live
White lace and promises
A kiss for luck and we're on our way

Why not some thick socks?

It's what that dirty bitch of a room deserves.

Wearing all my clean socks was not enough; the shoes solved the problem. I had to sleep with gloves and a hood too, but man, I saved some pretty penny with electricity.

I watched this on boxing day with my sister, years ago and she cried and apparently had nightmares.

Bad call. Mum was livid.

>lets give a movie 4 different endings, depending on which version you watch
kind of horseshit, they could have at least just put all 4 endings on each dvd, and did the clue ending with them

I can't get over how silly the premise is. The room is just evil,
woOoh. Yeah big deal, it shows you a bunch of illusions and doesn't let you leave, woah so evil.

Another bait post. Hide and ignore.

I forget that Americans are actually Christian so they believe in ghosts and boogiemen tormenting them for eternity.

Someone give me a decent horror I haven't seen to watch please

You know the ones I've seen

>le tips hat man
did you feel euphoric posting this?

I took a little jab at you and you're literally on the brink of tears. lmao.

Ghosts have been reported in ancient Egyptian culture Mesopotamian religions. The phenomenon, whatever is the underlying reality about it, is very, very old, and not exclusive to Christianity.
Many Christian denominations do not believe ghosts exist, based on Ecclesiastes 9:5 ("the dead know nothing"); they believe the apparitions are demons, but saying they believe in ghosts, as in what remains of a formerly living person, is technically incorrect.

*and Mesopotamian

It's the same shit. Aren't you a little old to believe in invisible boogiemen?

Genuinely one of the worst movies I ever watched, not even trolling. Why do you think it's good?

Maybe my English as a second language is failing me, I was trying to point that it is incorrect to correlate ghosts and Christianity.
People are seeing something since forever. If it is "real" or not, doesn't matter too much. What I believe, or not, is irrelevant.

What kind of cheap shitty dvds are you buying that doesn't include alternate endings?

What if Kevin Mcallister ended up in Room 1408?

You completely missed the point of my comment. We don't live in Ancient times, I have no reason to believe people who are scared of this movie are from Ancient Egypt.

You seem to believe that because we are in modern times, humans would stop believing in ghosts. The movie works because it is scary to its watchers.

‘The Haunting’, directed by Jan De Bont and Starring Lili Taylor.
The remake of ‘The House on Haunted Hill’.

>The remake of ‘The House on Haunted Hill’.
But that ends with two people just barely escaping? There's no realisation that they're fucked and decision to just fuck over the evil entity as one last act of defiance.

The decendant of Dr Hill stays in the fucking house to let the two escape.

ending of Shutter

Huh, I guess it's time to rewatch it.

The only people who believe in ghosts are literal retards and those who've been indoctrinated by their parents, like American Christians.

I liked the remake of HHH

40 Days and 40 Nights.

I mean... can you imagine?!

>The only people who believe in ghosts are literal retards and those who've been indoctrinated by their parents, like American Christians.
psycnet.apa.org/record/1983-22314-001

Believing in ghosts is silly, I'm not going to accept your idea that's it's a perfectly reasonable belief and it's just a matter of opinion. It's stupid and so long as horror movies rely on stupid premises because they're too lazy to come up with something better, they will continue to be not scary.

Why did the room's entity allow him to destroy it if everything else he had tried before was turned into an illusion and thus doomed to fail?
How did he survive more than 1 hour (even the countdown started late) if it was clearly stated that nobody had ever survived more than that?

Again, this was posted to refute your "The only people who believe in ghosts are literal retards and those who've been indoctrinated by their parents, like American Christians." affirmation.

The short story is better, but the movie is surprisingly good.

You can expand it to people who believe what makes them feel good if you want. It doesn't change that it's silly and deserves no respect.

What really fucks up the 'survived' ending is that the recorded voice you heat at the end doesn't match what was said in the hotel room; with the slight implication that he's still in the room.

In the original story, the writer accidentally lights himself on fire while going nuts and that's when the room lets him out to protect itself.

>you have to believe in something to find it entertaining
The fuck?

I'd pay serious money for an in-universe series on Norse mythology.

You have to believe in it to find it scary. This movie doesn't have anything else going on, he's not doing some investigation into the room and by the end of it we still don't know anything about the room except that it's evil. Yeah, we learn about his family tragedy, how interesting.

>You have to believe in it to find it scary.
This is also stupid.

>You have to believe in it to find it scary.
No you don't, you autistic motherfucker. That's what imagination is for.

I think it's pretty obvious.

I can imagine a ghost alright, but I can't make myself be scared of ghosts, because it's a silly concept. It destroys suspension of disbelief.

character and plot driven horror based on mature themes and strong atmosphere and tension. fairly kino in age of gross out/torture horror and jump scares

Congrats, you've got the 'tism. If you leave the thread now you'll get your trophy mailed straight to your door.

while we're all here, was the first Saw movie kino or a flick?

I think you have the microcephalism to be honest. Your underdeveloped, tiny brain can't propery seperate fiction from reality, so you'll swallow literally whatever garbage lazy writers come up with.

It's the fact that we CAN separate fiction from reality that allows us to be spooked by ghost stories without believing in ghosts, while you're stuck going "well it's not REAL, so how can I be scared???", like a retard.

I don't know, user. I find the 80s blob pretty scary but I don't believe that kind of thing exists.

autismal fedoralord can't into spirits and the afterlife in horror fiction. lmao @ u

Any movie is horrible if you stare at it long enough.
>science fiction
>sports
>guns
>goddamned computing

Explain how that makes any sense. If you could seperate it properly, your body wouldn't react by producing adrenaline.
I haven't seen it, but it's easier to think that a slime alien could exist, therefore it's easier to suspend disbelief. It's like The Strangers or The Tenant, before you realize he's insane, they're both dealing with stuff that could happen. Ghosts are just silly.

>what makes it good?
Your horrible taste.

>Explain how that makes any sense.
We're not 100%-logic-autists. We have this thing called imagination, that mankind has had since we first started to dream. It means we can put our minds entirely in a situation that we don't actually believe will ever happen, and get a reaction.

If I meet someone who actually believes they've seen a ghost I'll call them a retard, but there's nothing stopping me from imagining a world where ghosts ARE real. For us non-autists it really is just that simple.

>no u
based hat poster

I already explained this is due to your underdeveloped brain.

How's the 8th grade, champ?

I never noticed that. That’s pretty fucked.

>is it I who is weird? No, it must be that all of humanity has had underdeveloped brains and I am supreme in my inability to put myself in completely foreign situations!

To each their own I guess. I still think needing to believe something is plausible for it be scary is silly but I can see how it might enhance your experience.

>Why did the room's entity allow him to destroy it if everything else he had tried before was turned into an illusion and thus doomed to fail?
The room didn't allow him to destroy it, per se. it just didn't account for him having a real source of fire.
>How did he survive more than 1 hour (even the countdown started late) if it was clearly stated that nobody had ever survived more than that?
He lasted longer than anyone had before. So much so that the room was forced to reset completely once the timer ran out. The man managed to write an entire novel inside the alternate reality the room constructed for him -- but all this took place in less than an hour.

i just wanted an comfy horror thread now we have an autist i never signed up to be a tard wrangler

>never signed up to be a tard wrangler
There's an idea for a tragic drama.

Rain Man was based as all fuck 2bh.

Damn. I thought that premise sounded familiar.

It's my experience that people who find ghost stories scary aren't very intelligent. I think once you have developed to a certain point, things that are totally unbelieavable can't elicit any reaction in you. I used to think ghost stories were really scary when I was a kid and actually thought they could be real. Maybe some people never develop to the point that they aren't scared by boogiemen anylonger.

and yet you still get off on watching porn even tho you are a kiss virgin and will die as such having never known the loving touch of a woman. how does that add up?

Imagine being this buttblasted.

I must not be very intelligent myself because I can't tell if this is legitimate autism or just bait. I'll just stop.

I think it's a matter of development. I'm an intelligent guy, I have a large cranial capacity and a solid grounding in different philosophical schools. I'm not an average pleb like I imagine you are.
It's not autism, it's just that you've been stuck on a more infantile, unreflected state of being. Obviously I realize that me being so brazen about it hurts your ego and causes you to react with animosity and scorn. It's no problem for me to be more pleasant or humble under normal circumstances, but this is an anonymous discussion and we're talking about artistic merit, which is lessened by the existence of the brainlet audience to which you belong.

Did you measure your cranial capacity pouring water inside the empty space?

Holy shit I can't stop laughing.

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Yeah yeah,very impressive but how many confirmed kills do you have?

You can use the circumference of your skull. You might think it's silly, but there actually is a strong correlation between brain size and intelligence among humans.

discovermagazine.com/2010/sep/25-modern-humans-smart-why-brain-shrinking
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>no u
based

I'm not reading that popsci, here are some actual articles: Vernon et al., 2000; Rushton and Ankney, 2009; Pietschnig et al., 2015; Ritchie et al., 2015 a.

>I think it's a matter of development. I'm an intelligent guy, I have a large cranial capacity and a solid grounding in different philosophical schools

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Thanks.

Oh God I'm saving this for future shitposting. Doubt anyone will actually fall for it though.

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I can just imagine your blood pressure raising as you impotently sit around the thread making passive aggressive insults directed towards me hoping to catch my attention. Here it is. Now calm down.

I don't think about you at all

Do NOT include me in the screencap

Event Horizon, in a big way.

and yet here you are. curious.

>It's not autism, it's just that you've been stuck on a more infantile, unreflected state of being.
>i-it's not autism!
>YOU'RE being infantile

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It's true. You can react however outraged you please, but people like you are just plebs. So you like pleb entertainment, like horror stories about ghosts, because being a pleb you are at a state of development where this kind of thing is scary to you.

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I'm not outraged. I'm just having a good laugh at your expense! Also Caesar's ghost is real and said I'm a patrician btw.

>literally intelligent, nihilistic and has a wicked sense of humor

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Literally my favorite part. I love that he just kinda slowly loses it.

This scene fuels some of my nightmares. If I'm about to have a night terror a door like this is always visible somewhere near me. Kinda spooky desu

You sound outraged to me.

Have sex, incel

>he believed in ghosts as a kid
Get a load of this brainlet who wasn't born a superior sceptic.

Is this a new pasta?

Breaking News: Autistic user hears voices from text

Calm down bud.

The fact that you think everyone who makes fun of you is angry is a very obvious coping mechanism you've developed for yourself.

>main character is le writer

I think it's obvious that you are frustrated.

Well, it's obvious for you to decide that because that's how you deal with people making fun of you.

That makes it better. It leaves the whole thing ambiguous. I really didn't like the death ending because of the retarded jumpscare that made no sense especially from a narrative standpoint.

I definitely don't like the jumpscare part but do prefer the "triumphant" death of that ending. I'll take it any day over a "happy" ending where you're supposed to come away wondering whether he really escaped. I absolutely hate those kinds of endings. If only there was a version where it just ends with the room burning down and that's it. Maybe an outside shot of some non-distinct firemen containing the fire to one floor, to show that it really did burn down, but no more specifics or aftermath.

>no u
based

I get what you mean. I honestly don't mind the death itself, rather it's really just the jumpscare that ruins it.