Event Horizon (1997)

Mist said:

I saw that movie when I was way too young and I think between that and early internet exposure that really fucked me up lol.

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I was going say there was like a decade between this and Netscape but I forget sometimes I am now an old man who saw all this in real time.

I it was 27 YEARS AGO that I was running around annoying everyone by saying "look, WWW.FORD.COM WWW.KODAK.COM WWW.PERSIANKITTY.COM" and 14.4ing my way to the first graphical web pages in 1995.

Grizzlebeard said:

Has anyone thrown Iron Sky out there yet?

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Both of these are more comdedy, but good movies in a check your brain at the door kind of way.

I would also like to add Europa and Outlander to the list that sort of fit the vibe in different ways.

Big Phoenix said:

Screamers starring Robocop should be right up your alley. 90s sci fi B movie about two factions on a forgotten mining world in more or less a cold war stalemate that ends due to cyborgs.

Also;

2001 Space Odyssey, youve seen it right?
Species, though this is more of a slasher movie. But it does have some good nudity of one of the most beautiful women ever. Ignore the sequels, they all go down hill fast(second is clearly weird torture porn/fetish stuff)
War of the Worlds
Oblivion
Edge of Tomorrow

fucking tom cruise man.

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Yep, seen all of those.

Screamers is a REALLY good one, people need to know that one exists. It's got a little bit of The Thing's DNA combined with a little bit of Terminator DNA and you really can't go wrong with that. I saw Screamers very late (like 2018) and was still blown away by it. Such a completely nihilistic movie that it could have been a Black Mirror episode. I'm gonna watch it again.

War of the Worlds has had a few TV show adaptations as well. The recent British version (not the British version from a few years ago, I'm talking about the one from like 2020) was interesting and had a HELL of a cliffhanger ending, so I need to check out season 2.

However, even though the recent show is good, I'm gonna go ahead and give a huge recommendation to the WOTW TV show from 1990 or so. It ran two seasons. The first season is incredible, scary as absolute fuck and had practical effects and gore that were way ahead of their time for TV. Not to mention one of the most likeable show casts I've ever seen.

Season 2 was made largely by different people and is almost a different show. Don't really recommend that one unless you really want to see how things end for the characters. The producers changed EVERYTHING for Season 2 and it went from being cutting-edge sci-fi to being a fairly generic program.

But yeah, if you've never seen WOTW Season 1 and like existential dread type sci-fi with horrifying aliens, just get this and thank me later.

Mist said:

I saw that movie when I was way too young and I think between that and early internet exposure that really fucked me up lol.

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I know what you mean, in 1996 or so I saw a bunch of Skinemax and it fucked me up for a while in terms of making me a way-too-horny early teenager and wanting to bang everything. Like when Louis CK talked about putting his dick in-between the refrigerator and its door as a teenager because he didn't know what else to do with it, that was me.

Also when I was a late-stage fetus, my mom saw John Carpenter's The Thing in a theater, which means I heard all of it, including the shrieking of the creature and the dogs barking. As a small child I was terrified of the sound of dogs barking, and I think the movie is the reason why. I'm fine with dogs now, but I still have visceral skin-crawling reactions to the sounds The Thing makes, to this day.

Rajaah said:

I know what you mean, in 1996 or so I saw a bunch of Skinemax and it fucked me up for a while in terms of making me a way-too-horny early teenager and wanting to bang everything. Like when Louis CK talked about putting his dick in-between the refrigerator and its door as a teenager because he didn't know what else to do with it, that was me.

Also when I was a late-stage fetus, my mom saw John Carpenter's The Thing in a theater, which means I heard all of it, including the shrieking of the creature and the dogs barking. As a small child I was terrified of the sound of dogs barking, and I think the movie is the reason why. I'm fine with dogs now, but I still have visceral skin-crawling reactions to the sounds The Thing makes, to this day.

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Same for me but Pulp Fiction. I thought the gimp was like a pig with an apple in its' mouth because young me had ZERO fucking context for what the hell was going on.

/end derail

The original Alien and Star Trek 2 (Ceti Eel scene) uterlly fucked me up for months after seeing them. I wore ear muffs to bed for over a year.

Janx said:

Dude I fucking loved that movie. Rented it when we lived in Scotland and I was around..shit 10 or so. That's the one where dude gets the spike in his arm and karate chops it off right?

Edit fuck yeah it is! (38mins if timestamp doesnt work)

Also is that Freddie Krueger in it?

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nice, youtube titties.

Also movies never had a chance to scar me. That honor went to the likes of consumptionjunction and other early internet shock sites.