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Oct '23
I never played the games, but I did watch Willy's Wonderland recently. That might have been a more kid appropriate plotline, had they toned down that R-rating just a tad. But since that simple plotted movie already exists, Five Nights needed to be different.

Blumhouse tackled this video game adaption and pushed it pretty hard for its PG-13 rating. We're given a troubled protagonist struggling with an unresolved child kidnapping, custody battles, unemployment, pill addiction... that's a bit much for a kid movie, right? Let alone the implied violence of getting one's head sawed apart, or being gruesomely assimilated into an animatronic... or the actual violence of rotting corpses, cuts, stabbings, and people getting ripped in half. Not bad, Blumhouse. You made me just a little bit unsettled there for a while. Not because I deem it graphic, but because kids are decensitized enough to deem it as casual. If kids can handle this without issue, our old go-to slasher franchises ought to be a piece of cake for them to sit through.

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markus-san says:
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Oct '23 *
My youngest, the one who wants to see this at the cinema but can't because of it's '15' rating (maybe I can understand that rating now after your review), sat and watched Halloween for the first time last night. As you suggested, it was a "piece of cake".


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Box_a_Hair says:
#2, Reply to #1

Oct '23
My sister took her kids to see this movie and they all seemed to have enjoyed it. And there I was wondering why I wasn't allowed to show them the horror flicks my sister and I had grown up with.

I think the nephews will accept anything based on a video game they know of, and if it wasn't just that, they probably wouldn't have bothered. I can't get them to watch anything with me. Damn video games and VR has them too hypnotized.


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markus-san says:
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Oct '23
I see people complaining about the lack of gore. I guess they've never played the games otherwise they'd know they're not exactly Resident Evil. It's all about the jump scares.


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Tommix says:
#6, Reply to #1

Jan '24
The 1978 Halloween is almost unbelievably tame, if you think about it, by our standards. People forget how much of its popularity came from its music. The technology to create that soundtrack hadn't been along for very long, and those sounds were quite novel, and quite terrifying. Jamie Lee did a good job, of course, but without that music the movie probably would have just come and gone, without making too much of a splash.


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Box_a_Hair says:
#7, Reply to #6

Jan '24
It is super tame (and so is the original TCM). And yet the sequels all upped the gore. Compensating for the fact that they'll never be able to get under our skin as much as they did the first time around.


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#8, Reply to #7

Jan '24
While I enjoy a good gorefest, especially a good 80s comedy horror gorefest...the best horror is all about building good suspense. The original John Carpenter Halloween has that in spades, virtually no gore but has you sitting on the edge of your chair... classic horror cinema.


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zed says:
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Oct '23
I looked on wikipedia but couldnt see it mentioned, is this related to Willy's Wonderland


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markus-san says:
#4, Reply to #3

Oct '23
They're unrelated, they just both have animatronics as the antagonists.



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