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Surviving the predator? You mean being part of a minecraft youtuber’s discord before your 18th birthday?
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.
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…
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.
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?
I stand corrected. I’ll have to give it a rewatch at some point. I remember thinking it was a decent flick
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?
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Seriously he could maybe cover 5 miles in 24 hours.
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.
Tucker and Dale. I let them catch up and we have fun fishing, drinking, and joking for 23 hours and 55 minutes.
You’d probably still die somehow
He doomed himself the moment he called them fine fellas the villains.
You’re just itchin to kill yourself on thier property, aintcha?
Tucker and Dale aren’t the villains. Chad is.
They’re both the villains and the victims. Chad was also both villain and victim. All of the students killing themselves in absurd ways, both villains and victims. That was the main joke, from what I understood.
The other kids, yeah. Chad is just full villain by the end tho.
Yeah, they make it pretty clear with the big reveal about his history with the place
Plankton, I choose you.
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.
Bruce isn’t the villain in Jaws; the mayor is.
Same with Batman Forever.
Jaws is a spy movie henchman, not a horror movie villain.
So theres a lot in the books that never comes up in the film. She can impregnate you and make you give birth to a clone of her.
Well that’s got to take longer than 24 hours, surely? Or is the speed of the pregnancy part of the horror? Can she mpreg!?
Else, Jaws can’t get you if you’re nowhere close to the sea
Until they release a Jaws/Sharknado crossover.
It says 24 hours of being chased by the villain. That means the timer won’t start until they start chasing you.
Specifically chasing for 24 hours… So, any of the antagonists that require planning, or are infirmed … Or both?
John Kramer, the jigsaw killer. Bitch has terminal brain cancer and is in a wheelchair most of the time. I don’t think he could come up with a jigsaw plan, kidnap and execute it in that much time.
I was also going to say the SAW guy, but for different reasons:
John only targets people who he knows, who morally disgust him, or people who have personally made his own life considerably worse, or slighted him in some way.
…
If the scenario is… I have to survive 24 hours without being targetted by one of his kidnapping and torture plots…
Well, I do not have any deep, hidden secrets, I do not deny any part of my past to anyone willing to ask about it, I do not pretend to be something I am not. I have of course made mistakes, but they’ve never ruined any one’s life, and I freely admit and take responsibility for them.
Frankly, given my considerably traumatic life thus far, and my current status of… being crippled, doing not much beyond PT and lemmyposting all day, untill I finish recovery… and given that I have actually made friends out of actual, diagnosed sociopaths before…
I really do not think I would be the kind of person John would have any problem with.
…
If the scenario was just poof, both of us appear in a room and are both there for 24 hrs… we just… talk? Trauma bond over our fucked up lives?
John has, more than once, recruited into his schemes people who… pass his tests, whom he does not find morally abhorent.
I don’t have to agree with him on every single issue, I mostly just have to not be a hypocrite, and not intentionally try to offend or harm him.
…
Oh right, given that I have actually been held captive by a fentanyl addled mad man, for a week, and managed to talk my way into letting me leave… and then stumble over to a nearby firestation and tell them to call the police…
If I have actually survived a week of a very similar situation, I think I can survive just 24 hrs with a fictional character, who has a much, much more consistent, albeit still fucked up worldview.
absolutely insane life story, congrats on being alive tho!
Thanks for believing me.
Yeah, when I’m feeling down… I can always look back on that, objectively tell myself ‘I’ve survived worse’, and give myself a pat on the back for that, haha!
Hasn’t Jigsaw killed some of them for really stupid reasons, though? I don’t remember most of the details, but weren’t some of them basically just lazy and a bit dickish?
Though I’d be willing to chock those up to bad writing more than Jigsaw letting his morals slip, since he makes it very clear in multiple scenes what his intent is.
I mean yeah, he is not perfectly consistent nor ‘reasonable’, and… some nonsense plot inconsistencies/holes begin to crop up as the entire series keeps going.
That being said: I’m not saying I’m 100% guaranteed to be safe.
I’m saying I think I have pretty good odds, and thus so would a lot of other people who are self-aware and contemplativr enough to not be massive moral hypocrites, or in denial of or hiding some horrible secret in their past.
Yea, and in either case, he clearly researches his targets and traps them more than hunts them, so even if you were outright a target, he might take too long, or devise a plan where you could wait out the 24 hours anyways even if caught. … assuming you’d be let out at 24 hours. lol
Shit. He’s right. That isn’t honorable prey.
Source: Perhaps a predator-alien.
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.
Just meth, honestly.
What did you spend your billions on?
More meth obviously
This made me look up the actual Predator code of Honor and I quote
"Unarmed and/or “innocent” beings may be hunted if they:
Are the specific objective of a hunt."Sorry Op, you’re still screwed.
Jaws is objectively the best choice anyway. Just drive inland.
I could probably take Nurse Ratched in a fight.
Maybe gage from pet cemetery. Im not his dad so maybe I have to punt a child.
Godzilla. Then I’d go hang out at the White House.
