No, the pregnancy is accelerated, but I think it takes longr than a day, but it might be faster in some circumstances. Even if you get 3 billion dollars, it doesnt really matter if you're going to die giving birth to a hermaphroditic hybrid of homosapian and smallpox days later.
As far as mpreg goes; we dont know. Do you want to take that risk?
I wanted to say Freddy, because 24 hours without sleep would be easy-peasy.
...then I realized Im not a teenageer anymore and would probably take a nap anyways.
Actually physically addicted? Probably not. And you'd only need one, maybe two hits (assuming oral consumption, not smoked or IV) spread out over your 24 hours to get through it. However, the euphoric rush from the Meth would be pretty intense (the dopamine release is 5x-10x that of Adderall) and most of the dangers are from chronic use, so if you're the kind of person who's prone to risk-taking, it's possible you could wind up rationalizing the risks away and continuing to use it, and wind up truly addicted down the road. This is basically the route most addicts take. There aren't any substances that are so addictive that one use gets you physically hooked.
It might be especially easy to fall down this path if you're now a multi-billionaire and no longer have a need to work and thus need to find something new to occupy your time.
Just buy three pills of Adderall XR. I'm sure you would be able to get someone to sell you three pills in exchange for $1,000,000-$10,000,000 the day after tomorrow.
The Tyrannosaurus rex from Jurassic Park because first of all, I'm actually pretty sure I'd be fine so long as I can get in my car and drive away at a reasonable pace. Secondly, just think of the absolutely incredible collateral damage. Even if I get killed, it would be one of the most talked-about and confusing incidents in American history for the rest of time.
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.
You do not understand how addiction works. I... Kinda understand kinda don't.
But sometimes, sometimes drugs really are the solution, and if you cant get your hands on modafinil, I think 'survive freddy kreuger for 24 hours' is one of those times.
The us air force kits in vietnam, for crashed pilots? They followed a similar logic.
Obviously Freddy Krueger. Just stay awake 24 hours. The really difficulty is when you can't stay awake and you accidentally fall asleep. But I think staying awake 24 hours is pretty easy.
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.
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.
Prompt says you're being chased but nothing about the quality of the chase. I like the image of the predator being obligated to chase them but feeling kind of ashamed of it so they don't really want to get the kill.
Hunted: '*puff, wheeze* Just... gotta... get to the top... of the hill.'
Predator: *walks calmly up to just behind the hunted and makes a predator noise, then sits to wait for them to scramble the rest of the way up while the predator plays space-solitaire*
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.
The predator does not kill children or pregnant women. Predator 2 showed that. A kid with a toy UZI spotted the predator with his light bending and as a precaution the predator armed his shoulder cannon, but upon sensing it was not a real gun he disarmed it.
Also the subway showed he found a fetus developing in a woman and immediately released her.
No, but you would be an unarmed helpless guy. Not sporting enough for a predator. Or at least you will fake being helpless! There is no honor in slaughter.
I'd go with Hopper from A Bug's Life. I'm sure he's a huge threat to Dave Foley and Julia Louse-Dreyfus, but I ain't worried about no grasshopper, even one voiced by Kevin Spacey.
Absolutely a Yautja (Predator). Pretty sure short middle-aged pudgy women who'd curl into a sad ball on the floor when threatened would be the most dishonorable kills ever. He might even be forced to off himself in shame for that lol
But if they're chasing you for 24 hrs then you may have pissed it off. It wouldn't be for a trophy at that point but just because it doesn't like you, so it's probably going to be more painful.
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.
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.
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!
The criteria is that it's a horror villain of your choice. So, I don't know why you'd choose a boss zombie or one of those really bad variants when you could choose one of the zombies from Shawn of the Dead.
But I'm also not completely sure that a random zombie really counts as a "villain".
That thing from “It Follows”. I would just jump inside my car and go for a road trip. I am more than able to drive for 24 hours. It can follow these nuts!
I mean it would be easy to choose somebody like Professor Moriarty. Assuming they didn’t gain instant knowledge of how to navigate the 21st century and/or you didn’t have to spend the 24 hours in their time/universe.
Professor Moriarty would also likely be disinterested in actually coming after you. He only targeted Holmes because Holmes kept uncovering his criminal plans. He began to see Holmes as a roadblock, and was continuously frustrated by Holmes’ investigative abilities. As long as you weren’t in Moriarty’s way and didn’t have anything to offer him, he likely wouldn’t care about you. After all, his public image was that of a respected scholar. You’d be a little fish in a very big pond, and Moriarty was smart enough to recognize that going after you would net him nothing in return.
Fine. Hop in a car, and get on the nearest highway. Every time you come to a fork, roll a die to see which direction you go. 24 hours is a long time to drive, but not impossible. And assuming a truly random path, he’d have no hope of predicting where you were going to try and head you off. Hell, stop over and rent a new car whenever you’re running low on gas, just to make things even more confusing; You’re about to win $3B, so what is a few hundred dollars in rental car fees?
The Refregirator (yeah, it's a thing: https://www.imdb.com/fr/title/tt0102767/), It's a haunted / gate of hell fridge attacking a couple who just moved in a shitty appartment.
Even if you unplug it, it still tries to eat you or send his minions (toaster, blender...) so I'll surely die horribly but I'm all for fighting against electric appliances.
Can I go for a horror monster that isn't necessarily from a horror movie? Because if so I'm going for the flying black bedsheets from Harry Potter 3, it's summer and I want a mobile air conditioner. Also it couldn't inflict anything I to me that I don't do to myself, guess it could try to eat my soul but I'm pretty sure I don't have one.
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.
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?
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.
Yeah, not sure if the imagery is all just the same thing in different colors or not, but the full scene's in this clip. He sees their flashlight beams in the last view mode used.
david Attenborough narration, about hour the military commandos are entering a trap. and offhand question why are there US military troops in a central American jungle?
So… I’m no history major but as I recall, Nicaragua had a socialist government called the FMLN… Reagan hated socialism and hired Oliver North to arm and train El Salvadoran troops… it’s wasn’t very secret. We had military boots on the ground. Even now I believe that we have a base in Panama to train soldiers… it’s connected to West Point somehow.
But yeah, if shit’s going on places, we’re there.
I do not know how Predator explained our soldiers down there but it didn’t have to.
To be fair, most of those villains could never realistically get an insanity plea in court. Most people with mental issues don't go poisoning the city's water supply.
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.
Until they release a Jaws/Sharknado crossover.
Bruce isn't the villain in Jaws; the mayor is.
Same with Batman Forever.
It says 24 hours of being chased by the villain. That means the timer won't start until they start chasing you.
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.
No, the pregnancy is accelerated, but I think it takes longr than a day, but it might be faster in some circumstances. Even if you get 3 billion dollars, it doesnt really matter if you're going to die giving birth to a hermaphroditic hybrid of homosapian and smallpox days later.
As far as mpreg goes; we dont know. Do you want to take that risk?
I wanted to say Freddy, because 24 hours without sleep would be easy-peasy. ...then I realized Im not a teenageer anymore and would probably take a nap anyways.
This would work with a small investment in hard drugs before hand. Depends on how much prep time and street cred you have.
I’m an old boring dude, but if I got off caffeine for a week before hand, I’d have no trouble stay awake after my second cup that day.
Yeah it's early afternoon here and I just realized that I someone told me I had to stay awake for the next 24 hours, I wouldn't make it.
Ahh but have you heard about meth?
For $3 billion, I will take a crippling meth addiction.
Would you get addicted that fast? I have zero experience with speed in any form
Actually physically addicted? Probably not. And you'd only need one, maybe two hits (assuming oral consumption, not smoked or IV) spread out over your 24 hours to get through it. However, the euphoric rush from the Meth would be pretty intense (the dopamine release is 5x-10x that of Adderall) and most of the dangers are from chronic use, so if you're the kind of person who's prone to risk-taking, it's possible you could wind up rationalizing the risks away and continuing to use it, and wind up truly addicted down the road. This is basically the route most addicts take. There aren't any substances that are so addictive that one use gets you physically hooked.
It might be especially easy to fall down this path if you're now a multi-billionaire and no longer have a need to work and thus need to find something new to occupy your time.
Just buy three pills of Adderall XR. I'm sure you would be able to get someone to sell you three pills in exchange for $1,000,000-$10,000,000 the day after tomorrow.
This made me look up the actual Predator code of Honor and I quote
"Unarmed and/or "innocent" beings may be hunted if they:
Sorry Op, you're still screwed.
Jaws is objectively the best choice anyway. Just drive inland.
The Tyrannosaurus rex from Jurassic Park because first of all, I'm actually pretty sure I'd be fine so long as I can get in my car and drive away at a reasonable pace. Secondly, just think of the absolutely incredible collateral damage. Even if I get killed, it would be one of the most talked-about and confusing incidents in American history for the rest of time.
Go to Disneyland
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.
Freddy Kruger vs Chev Chelios.
What did you spend your billions on?
More meth obviously
You do not understand how addiction works. I... Kinda understand kinda don't.
But sometimes, sometimes drugs really are the solution, and if you cant get your hands on modafinil, I think 'survive freddy kreuger for 24 hours' is one of those times.
The us air force kits in vietnam, for crashed pilots? They followed a similar logic.
Nosferatu. Because I live in the arctic and it's summer.
Username checks out.
In related news, I'd choose Gordon Gekko since his financial misdeeds can't affect me within a day when I'm out plundering England for tie dye 😉
Som en Skotte, jeg føler meg forpliktet å si ifra at England har mye mer hasj enn tie-dye.
Jeg kan bestemt bruge begge dele! 😄
hope no one tells the vampires about sun tan lotion
The first Blade movie actually had the antagonist go out in the sun by using copious amounts of sun screen.
let's face it, modern day vamps would just wear stuff to cover themselves or sun tan lotion.
they would go around like normal, and at worst be considered to have a disability
Trust me. As a partial ginger, it doesn't work well enough.
God didn't want you to leave Ireland.
Obviously Freddy Krueger. Just stay awake 24 hours. The really difficulty is when you can't stay awake and you accidentally fall asleep. But I think staying awake 24 hours is pretty easy.
Yeah, with billions on the line, 24 hours is a cake walk
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.
I'm going with Jaws, and staying home.
weather alert, there's a tornado on your way...
hope it doesn't launch a weird franchise
Tucker and Dale. I let them catch up and we have fun fishing, drinking, and joking for 23 hours and 55 minutes.
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
You're just itchin to kill yourself on thier property, aintcha?
You'd probably still die somehow
He doomed himself the moment he called them fine fellas the villains.
Prompt says you're being chased but nothing about the quality of the chase. I like the image of the predator being obligated to chase them but feeling kind of ashamed of it so they don't really want to get the kill.
Hunted: '*puff, wheeze* Just... gotta... get to the top... of the hill.' Predator: *walks calmly up to just behind the hunted and makes a predator noise, then sits to wait for them to scramble the rest of the way up while the predator plays space-solitaire*
Millennials would take this challenge & use it to die in the first minute.
Free euthanasia? Where do I sign up?
Edit: yes I'll take the upgraded life insurance.
Free and potentially spectacular
In that case, I'll take the nemesis from resident evil.
Now we're talking!
I also wouldn't mind being ripped in half by juggernaut.
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.
Sure, but what about decoy toys?
The predator does not kill children or pregnant women. Predator 2 showed that. A kid with a toy UZI spotted the predator with his light bending and as a precaution the predator armed his shoulder cannon, but upon sensing it was not a real gun he disarmed it.
Also the subway showed he found a fetus developing in a woman and immediately released her.
I am neither of those things.
No, but you would be an unarmed helpless guy. Not sporting enough for a predator. Or at least you will fake being helpless! There is no honor in slaughter.
Surely the Predator would be able to tell when someone is faking helplessness...
it's not too late to get into mpreg.
According to another post here, you need to antagonise Sadako first...
Okay, so be a pregnant child. Got you.
I've got lots of mud and trees at my place. I'll be just fine.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
I'd go with Hopper from A Bug's Life. I'm sure he's a huge threat to Dave Foley and Julia Louse-Dreyfus, but I ain't worried about no grasshopper, even one voiced by Kevin Spacey.
My garden!
Absolutely a Yautja (Predator). Pretty sure short middle-aged pudgy women who'd curl into a sad ball on the floor when threatened would be the most dishonorable kills ever. He might even be forced to off himself in shame for that lol
But if they're chasing you for 24 hrs then you may have pissed it off. It wouldn't be for a trophy at that point but just because it doesn't like you, so it's probably going to be more painful.
That one snail that kills you if it touches you
J.K Rowling
If we're doing irl monsters, Henry Kissinger. Even before he was dead, I could take him.
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.
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.
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!
I can't tell if you're serious...
One zombie. I could win against one zombie. With prep time. I think.
Remember, just one. In my prep time I'll build pit traps.
the zombie also gets prep time
Ok. How would you say does it prep?
It wouldn't be fair for me to tell you, unless you want me to tell them how you are preparing
Can it make decoy zombies?
The criteria is that it's a horror villain of your choice. So, I don't know why you'd choose a boss zombie or one of those really bad variants when you could choose one of the zombies from Shawn of the Dead.
But I'm also not completely sure that a random zombie really counts as a "villain".
What if it was an unusually charismatic zombie with a tragic backstory?
Freddie Krueger... Just stay awake
Imagine being out hunting and you walk right near an old injured wild pig and it just sits there staring at you.
Be funny if the Predator pats the guy on the head before leaving.
That thing from “It Follows”. I would just jump inside my car and go for a road trip. I am more than able to drive for 24 hours. It can follow these nuts!
I mean it would be easy to choose somebody like Professor Moriarty. Assuming they didn’t gain instant knowledge of how to navigate the 21st century and/or you didn’t have to spend the 24 hours in their time/universe.
Professor Moriarty would also likely be disinterested in actually coming after you. He only targeted Holmes because Holmes kept uncovering his criminal plans. He began to see Holmes as a roadblock, and was continuously frustrated by Holmes’ investigative abilities. As long as you weren’t in Moriarty’s way and didn’t have anything to offer him, he likely wouldn’t care about you. After all, his public image was that of a respected scholar. You’d be a little fish in a very big pond, and Moriarty was smart enough to recognize that going after you would net him nothing in return.
Moriarty was told that if you die in the next 24 hours he gets $3 billion.
Fine. Hop in a car, and get on the nearest highway. Every time you come to a fork, roll a die to see which direction you go. 24 hours is a long time to drive, but not impossible. And assuming a truly random path, he’d have no hope of predicting where you were going to try and head you off. Hell, stop over and rent a new car whenever you’re running low on gas, just to make things even more confusing; You’re about to win $3B, so what is a few hundred dollars in rental car fees?
Careful, that's how you end up here:
Krampus. It’s summer rn
The Refregirator (yeah, it's a thing: https://www.imdb.com/fr/title/tt0102767/), It's a haunted / gate of hell fridge attacking a couple who just moved in a shitty appartment. Even if you unplug it, it still tries to eat you or send his minions (toaster, blender...) so I'll surely die horribly but I'm all for fighting against electric appliances.
All good until the printer comes after you. Printers are haunted normally, so I imagine under this scenario they'd be even more malevolent...
That's when i call guilleme mezzanine, the bush pilot.
A tire. I can drive away faster then that thing can roll.
It follows. Go for a little roadtrip, ez 3 billions.
We can be billionaire buddies because that was my first choice too.
Get laid, go for a road trip, get paid.
The ginosaji.
I'm sure I could survive 24 hours being hit with a spoon.
God damn, has it really been that long?
Time is the fire in which we burn.
Surviving the predator? You mean being part of a minecraft youtuber's discord before your 18th birthday?
Godzilla. Then I'd go hang out at the White House.
Choo Choo Charles.
Charles can't swim. I'll just take the ferry to an island.
Who is Charles and why cant he take the ferry
He's a train, and he's a train.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_ferry
I could probably take Nurse Ratched in a fight.
The girl from Teeth. I mean, worst case...
Full disclosure: I have not actually seen the movie.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagina_dentata
If you are a lox believer then it’s the world’s oldest myth
Whoa, I truly had no idea. That's pretty wild.
Shit. He's right. That isn't honorable prey.
Source: Perhaps a predator-alien.
Jack Torrance from the shining
Percy Wetmore from the green mile
Warden Samuel Norton from Shawshank Redemption
Without their context they have little power.
Shawshank is nowhere close to being a horror movie.
Tbf, none of the Predator movies are horror, either. This whole post is built on a lie!
Can I go for a horror monster that isn't necessarily from a horror movie? Because if so I'm going for the flying black bedsheets from Harry Potter 3, it's summer and I want a mobile air conditioner. Also it couldn't inflict anything I to me that I don't do to myself, guess it could try to eat my soul but I'm pretty sure I don't have one.
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.
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
I'm not sure if that was his original intention, or if that is how he views it in light of the sequels,
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!
Maybe gage from pet cemetery. Im not his dad so maybe I have to punt a child.
I feel a good amount of them are no match for the .45
Predator, absolutely. I can survive 24 hrs lying under the bushes covered in mud.
as soon as the mud heats up you'll be visible again
you'll have to change the mud frequently
Thanks! /note to self
Unless he switches view modes like the one in Predator 2.
He was able to see people who thought they were hidden since they only knew about the thermal view.
Yeah, not sure if the imagery is all just the same thing in different colors or not, but the full scene's in this clip. He sees their flashlight beams in the last view mode used.
When did predator not kill someone??
they seem to ignore the camera crew, that's kind of them...
fuck it, we need a BBC mockumentary about then filming the predator like a nature documentary.
Five star idea! I’m literally laughing at the … Spinaltap version!! That would by hysterical.
david Attenborough narration, about hour the military commandos are entering a trap. and offhand question why are there US military troops in a central American jungle?
You must be young?
So… I’m no history major but as I recall, Nicaragua had a socialist government called the FMLN… Reagan hated socialism and hired Oliver North to arm and train El Salvadoran troops… it’s wasn’t very secret. We had military boots on the ground. Even now I believe that we have a base in Panama to train soldiers… it’s connected to West Point somehow.
But yeah, if shit’s going on places, we’re there.
I do not know how Predator explained our soldiers down there but it didn’t have to.
the question was sort of rethorical. the movie takes place in Guatemala
Let's face it, they were sent there to protect the cocaine deliveries to the States
Exactly.
Daredevil. Or Batman.
Batmans a billionaire isnt he? sounds like a villain to me
Billionaire who spends his time violating the law and kicking the shit out of people with mental issues. Not to mention all the young boys.
To be fair, most of those villains could never realistically get an insanity plea in court. Most people with mental issues don't go poisoning the city's water supply.
Plankton, I choose you.
I'd say Chucky, but any evil doll could probably kill me within the hour.