@Kidsandliz No. It wasn’t charging nor holding a charge so I ziplocked it in a baggie and stuck it in the freezer for 14 hours. Let it warm to room temp and reinstalled.
@Milyvan1 I went googling. Seems like you will get a small number of additional recharges, but hey - it postpones the inevitable so that is a good thing.
@tnhillbillygal no. Either you do the classic, which is a sad goat vampire, not really a danger to humans; or you do the American version, which is just a mangy coyote.
Succubi are certainly underutilized. Not that I care about horror, but it feels like something their usually demographic should enjoy. I’d love for the Japanese death kites to get the spotlight, though. Too lazy to look up the actually name.
vampires. they never get old or go out of style. besides the female ones usually look pretty sexy in the movies. just my opinion mind you, if you gotta die by via a monster why not?
@aetris I feel like Del Toro has almost single-handedly made his own creatures their own works of art in his movies. I have no idea how you would describe the creature in Pan’s Labyrinth with the eye in it’s hand other than just plain creepy as they come.
@reclaimercube - Del Toro is one of the few filmmakers around I would still define as an auteur.
This probably should be in a thread of it’s own and I’m sorry it’s so late-to-the-party but there was once a time filmmakers were SUPPOSED to be auteurs and films were supposed to be art, and then Jaws and Star Wars came out, and suddenly it was all about money and audience and entertainment. And obviously it kind of has to be because movies cost money and if a studio is going to invest $40 million + in a movie there has to be a return, but it does seem like there ought to be some art in there someplace!
@aetris I feel like Del Toro (I could be wrong) is one of the few filmmakers who is legitimately making whatever he wants and doesn’t necessarily care about commercial success.
@reclaimercube - Del Toro’s definitely not cranking out ‘studio films’, which is the important thing to me. I think a director HAS to care about commercial success if he wants the money for projects, just look at M. Night Shyamalan. I guess what I was trying to say before is that Hollywood is always looking for that money-making formula, so the would-be “blockbusters” crowd better films out of the theaters.
But having said THAT, I don’t see a lot of really great small films either. I mean I love Wes Anderson but his films aren’t all that small.
@aetris I, actually, have started to despise Wes Anderson movies. It feels like at this point he has stopped trying to make good movies and started trying to make “good Wes Anderson-style movies”.
Quinton Tarintino has falled, almost, into the same trap as him as of late. I really enjoyed The Hateful Eight and appreciated the ability to see it in theatres, but it felt like he was ripping off early movies of himself.
For some reason the director I’ve found myself falling in love with lately has been Drew Goddard. I can’t stop thinking about Bad Times at the El Royale. It felt like the cookie cutter machine of Hollywood allowed something different to come out.
@reclaimercube - I’m pretty much a sucker for Anderson, though I also love what I would call Shymalan’s sensibility too (and he’s a local boy - much more so than Brian DePalma, who graduated from my alma mater!)
Interesting to hear about Goddard - I’ll look for Bad Times at the El Royale!
You know I took all day to meditate on this thought but when have centaurs been properly horrifically done? Outside of Narnia and LOTR have they ever really had their moment in the light? I feel like this could be done exceptionally well. One that comes to mind that you could almost take seriously was the one in Harry Potter, however, that was a friendly take. The idea of them by default sounds pretty horrific IMO.
People who do not refrigerate their batteries
@shahnm Just recently found out it works for refreshing crapped out laptop batteries too! Made mine almost like new.
@Milyvan1 Do you have to refrigerate it each time before charging?
@Kidsandliz No. It wasn’t charging nor holding a charge so I ziplocked it in a baggie and stuck it in the freezer for 14 hours. Let it warm to room temp and reinstalled.
@Milyvan1 So could you repeatedly charge it after that or was it a rinse and repeat to get it to charge?
@Kidsandliz Just once. It reset it I guess: Works perfectly now. Dunno if it works for all but read on a tech site and many had success with it.
@Milyvan1 I went googling. Seems like you will get a small number of additional recharges, but hey - it postpones the inevitable so that is a good thing.
Werewolves? They had their time in Underworld! Mummies? The Mummy remake/reboot/whatever barely came out.
@reclaimercube Yes. This. Mummies, werewolfs, blood suckers… all done to exhaustion.
Stick with the zombies for another minute or two. I’m still diggin’ ‘em.
@reclaimercube Mummies also had a great representation in one of my favorite “horror” movies, “Bubba Ho-Tep”(I love me some Bruce Campbell!)
Peter Lorre.
Trolls have had their moment online for a long time now.
@cpierce
/image online trolls
@cpierce I’m pretty sure South Park did a whole season on trolls
/image chupacabra
@tnhillbillygal
/image chalupa
@tnhillbillygal no. Either you do the classic, which is a sad goat vampire, not really a danger to humans; or you do the American version, which is just a mangy coyote.
@tnhillbillygal I was going to say this too. Great minds, amiright?
/giphy chupacbra
Succubi are certainly underutilized. Not that I care about horror, but it feels like something their usually demographic should enjoy. I’d love for the Japanese death kites to get the spotlight, though. Too lazy to look up the actually name.
@simplersimon
/image succubus spouses
/image japanese death kites spotlight
@simplersimon please show a picture. Google found me almost hentai creatures
@reclaimercube @simplersimon
/image hentai creatures
@simplersimon I prefer incubi, myself.
@elimanningface @simplersimon thank god no pictures loaded for this one
Meh
@jst1ofknd
/image meh
They are already here…
/giphy Trumps
@ZeroCharisma
/image go-go gadget thans
/image Amazon women on the moon
@TheCO2 Creeps me out even out of context.
@Milyvan1 It’s anxiety inducing.
Earworms
Water dwellers such as the Creature From the Black Lagoon
irks
vampires. they never get old or go out of style. besides the female ones usually look pretty sexy in the movies. just my opinion mind you, if you gotta die by via a monster why not?
I love me some creature feature!
@aetris Hi, Abe! David Hyde Pierce uncredited in the first film.
@aetris I feel like Del Toro has almost single-handedly made his own creatures their own works of art in his movies. I have no idea how you would describe the creature in Pan’s Labyrinth with the eye in it’s hand other than just plain creepy as they come.
@reclaimercube - Del Toro is one of the few filmmakers around I would still define as an auteur.
This probably should be in a thread of it’s own and I’m sorry it’s so late-to-the-party but there was once a time filmmakers were SUPPOSED to be auteurs and films were supposed to be art, and then Jaws and Star Wars came out, and suddenly it was all about money and audience and entertainment. And obviously it kind of has to be because movies cost money and if a studio is going to invest $40 million + in a movie there has to be a return, but it does seem like there ought to be some art in there someplace!
@aetris I feel like Del Toro (I could be wrong) is one of the few filmmakers who is legitimately making whatever he wants and doesn’t necessarily care about commercial success.
@reclaimercube - Del Toro’s definitely not cranking out ‘studio films’, which is the important thing to me. I think a director HAS to care about commercial success if he wants the money for projects, just look at M. Night Shyamalan. I guess what I was trying to say before is that Hollywood is always looking for that money-making formula, so the would-be “blockbusters” crowd better films out of the theaters.
But having said THAT, I don’t see a lot of really great small films either. I mean I love Wes Anderson but his films aren’t all that small.
@aetris I, actually, have started to despise Wes Anderson movies. It feels like at this point he has stopped trying to make good movies and started trying to make “good Wes Anderson-style movies”.
Quinton Tarintino has falled, almost, into the same trap as him as of late. I really enjoyed The Hateful Eight and appreciated the ability to see it in theatres, but it felt like he was ripping off early movies of himself.
For some reason the director I’ve found myself falling in love with lately has been Drew Goddard. I can’t stop thinking about Bad Times at the El Royale. It felt like the cookie cutter machine of Hollywood allowed something different to come out.
I’m a sucker for Shyamalan though.
@reclaimercube - I’m pretty much a sucker for Anderson, though I also love what I would call Shymalan’s sensibility too (and he’s a local boy - much more so than Brian DePalma, who graduated from my alma mater!)
Interesting to hear about Goddard - I’ll look for Bad Times at the El Royale!
ZOMG Goblins all the way!
Clowns
Sock puppets! (Sorry Glen)
Maybe Ctulhu. Like a live action Coon n’ Friends?
@sicc574 I’d love this but I’m afraid someone would mess it up.
@sicc574 @Targaryen Exactly what I was thinking.
@Milyvan1 @sicc574 Mediocre minds think alike.
Alarm clocks.
/giphy creepy clowns
MonkeyBot
Ed Sheeran.
Politicians
Cats. They will unveil their true selves, their inner demeanor, their hidden agenda, and bring forth wholesale slaughter and destruction.
Candy corn monster
Spooky bois
This thing creeps me out every time I see it.:
@rockblossom The king of creep
Orange politicians
You know I took all day to meditate on this thought but when have centaurs been properly horrifically done? Outside of Narnia and LOTR have they ever really had their moment in the light? I feel like this could be done exceptionally well. One that comes to mind that you could almost take seriously was the one in Harry Potter, however, that was a friendly take. The idea of them by default sounds pretty horrific IMO.
Draugr