The house that Doc built.

[gogoblender 3,578]

19 minutes ago, DocHoff said:

We're good, thanks, tis the season where good ole horror movies are brought back onto streaming services; favorite time of year. 

horror movies!

top three faves?

Im a huge fan of Ari Aster... heredity and Midsommar...Midsommar  is so heart breaking good...ive never seen horror filmed in so much direct, and wonderfully cheery sunlight before. The amount of detail...   * le sigh * 

 

 

gogo

 

[DocHoff 130]

Top 3: the Hellraiser series, the Wishmaster series, and the Warlock series. 

[gogoblender 3,578]

15 minutes ago, DocHoff said:

Top 3: the Hellraiser series, the Wishmaster series, and the Warlock series. 

L O V E  Wishmaster

NOONE says *make your wisheezzzz* like wishmaster!

A triumph of cheese, masterful acting ( on the evil genie's side) great lore (will never forget the tale of how he became ) utter lack care for intensity of gruesomeness and a light, fluffy touch (omgod is that at all possible) .

Hell raiser pairs very well with it, for almost the same reasons I listed up above

what is warlock series?  never heard of that... I only know Adam Warlock from Marvel

 

gogo

[DocHoff 130]

Whoops, not the Warlock series, I meant The prophecy series. I've seen so many of them that I sometimes confuse them. 

[gogoblender 3,578]

18 hours ago, DocHoff said:

Whoops, not the Warlock series, I meant The prophecy series. I've seen so many of them that I sometimes confuse them. 

prophecy ... do you have a link?
I vaguely remember a paperback called *prophecy* with a bear on the outside... or maybe im getting it wrong... would love to see what your third is 

gogo

[DocHoff 130]

 

Here's the first one; there are five Prophecy movies . 

[gogoblender 3,578]

3 hours ago, DocHoff said:

 

Here's the first one; there are five Prophecy movies . 

zomgod..it IS  that one.. and Christopher Walken to boot! Docs got taste  Wasnt it a kind of cult movie or something ? I think the guy that wrote it was famous... I remember seeing covers of this novel on the way somewhere in an airport book store... my brother and I always got one choice each to choose for a trip... and Stephen King had just showed up in town and horror was name of the game.

Ill check and see if they have it on any of the channels we stream (disney, apple plus (course! @pevil and prime..

gogo

[DocHoff 130]

 

Here's another one of my favorites. 

[gogoblender 3,578]

20 hours ago, DocHoff said:

 

Here's another one of my favorites. 

Is he in a new series or movie?

gogo

[DocHoff 130]

It's a B movie. It starts out pretty strong, but falters a bit. But this movie's given me several story concepts for a game I play. 

[gogoblender 3,578]

21 hours ago, DocHoff said:

It's a B movie. It starts out pretty strong, but falters a bit. But this movie's given me several story concepts for a game I play. 

ahhh... good ole B's...

 

very violent...  its phantasm.. ole school schclock...only click if gore hungree

Spoiler

 

 

[DocHoff 130]

Ahh, one of the many perils of dungeon-delving. You're with your crew, having a laugh, when some little flying sphere comes sailing out of nowhere and roto-rooters you right in the brain. 

[gogoblender 3,578]

27 minutes ago, DocHoff said:

Ahh, one of the many perils of dungeon-delving. You're with your crew, having a laugh, when some little flying sphere comes sailing out of nowhere and roto-rooters you right in the brain. 

ahahaha...u got it

roto - rooter! is that the name for it? horrid things... waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too Over the top when they first came out...and ... kind of misplaced .. sort of? they seemed to *flaunt* their high techiness...but I thought Phantasm was supposed to be a horror movie... 

gogo

[DocHoff 130]

I don't think that's the name for it, it's just what I've always called them. Roto-rooter's a plumbing service here, with a catchy little theme song: "Call Roto-Rooter, that's the name, and away go troubles down the drain"

[gogoblender 3,578]

21 hours ago, DocHoff said:

I don't think that's the name for it, it's just what I've always called them. Roto-rooter's a plumbing service here, with a catchy little theme song: "Call Roto-Rooter, that's the name, and away go troubles down the drain"

groooooooooooooooosome....  that movie followed me into my dreams

 

[DocHoff 130]

On 10/4/2024 at 3:15 PM, pevil said:

I love it. Building in games is one of my favourite things to do and like you when I'm in Minecraft I'm not in creative mode. There's something satisfying about finding/crafting all the exact items you need. I look forward to the next update in another 40 hours of game time!

This one's gunna take me longer than the original, as I recently discovered that we can chisel blocks. So, I can give blocks lining, which makes them pop a little more. I don't have my fence up yet, so wildlife is wandering on my property. It's all good though; I know who's next for breakfast once I'm done preparing the panda hanging there. 

[DocHoff 130]

On 10/22/2024 at 7:17 AM, gogoblender said:

groooooooooooooooosome....  that movie followed me into my dreams

 

Ahh, you want to talk about movies that follow us into our dreams? I have just one, Sinister. The demon, Bughuul, never killed anyone; he gave the kids that glowing green stuff for them to administer to their families. Imagine having your morning coffee one minute, the next minute you're laying immobilized on the floor, the following moment you're watching, helpless, as your child runs over your head with a lawnmower. Or hangs you blindfolded over a swamp to wait for an alligator to bite your head off. Sinister 1 is the only movie that got to me a little bit as I was walking out of the theater. 

[pevil 114]

6 hours ago, DocHoff said:

This one's gunna take me longer than the original, as I recently discovered that we can chisel blocks. So, I can give blocks lining, which makes them pop a little more. I don't have my fence up yet, so wildlife is wandering on my property. It's all good though; I know who's next for breakfast once I'm done preparing the panda hanging there. 

I love the mix of peaceful, artistic builder, and ruthless hunter preparing their next meal ;) That's a cool little detail though, and vastly expands your crafting materials for even more creativity.

If we want to talk about scary movies, only one has ever scared me. I love it and hate it in equal amounts. Arachnophobia. I do suffer arachnophobia, but mostly spider films don't scare me (or games, the only spiders in-game that ever freaked me out were the flat hairy ones in Sacred! I refused to go to certain areas for ages due to those things but eventually managed to get over it). Things like Eight-Legged Freaks are too over the top and silly so even the CGI spiders don't bother me. But I can genuinely see Arachnophobia happening. A particularly deadly species makes its way over here, interbreeds with a native species and they start killing off the town? Absolutely. Whenever I watch that film I am incredibly nervous about turning off lamps and getting in the shower!

Love me a good horror movie though (and a bad one). Watching plenty on Netflix while they're up, I'll have to check if they have Sinister on there.

[DocHoff 130]

1 hour ago, pevil said:

I love the mix of peaceful, artistic builder, and ruthless hunter preparing their next meal ;) That's a cool little detail though, and vastly expands your crafting materials for even more creativity.

If we want to talk about scary movies, only one has ever scared me. I love it and hate it in equal amounts. Arachnophobia. I do suffer arachnophobia, but mostly spider films don't scare me (or games, the only spiders in-game that ever freaked me out were the flat hairy ones in Sacred! I refused to go to certain areas for ages due to those things but eventually managed to get over it). Things like Eight-Legged Freaks are too over the top and silly so even the CGI spiders don't bother me. But I can genuinely see Arachnophobia happening. A particularly deadly species makes its way over here, interbreeds with a native species and they start killing off the town? Absolutely. Whenever I watch that film I am incredibly nervous about turning off lamps and getting in the shower!

Love me a good horror movie though (and a bad one). Watching plenty on Netflix while they're up, I'll have to check if they have Sinister on there.

  That's exactly what I was going for. I can't just build a house, I have to picture the occupants first. My secret's taking an hour nap; I find my brain to be at it's most creative when it's in the twilight between awake and asleep, the "dozing off" phase. So, I built this one because I saw a Navy CB named John (I don't have a last name for him), some folks know them better as Seabees; our Construction Battalion. There are a lot of different types of Seabees, but I didn't see much of his rating. All I know is he signed up, he served, he came home after one tour, spent maybe a month in the civilian world, went to bed one night, and woke up...where ever this is. John thought he was in heaven at first; after all, we generally wake up wherever we go to sleep at, so when one doesn't, it's safe to assume something big happened. However, is one supposed to be hungry in heaven? Does a fox eat a bunny, like what happened right next to him, in heaven? Not long after that, a black bear ripped John to shreds, but he found himself standing right where he first entered the world. So, there's stuff to contemplate, because while it's not the heaven he believed in, perhaps he was wrong, or perhaps he misunderstood. But where ever he is, he can be killed and is hungry, so that means food and shelter; all of that other stuff can come later. 

John isn't going to be happy with just a mud hut, but he's not going to have a full-blown luxury home until he figures out more stuff, so he's working on a home with just a little flair for now. So, he builds, hunts, and goes for a swim to cool off. But there will be long-term stuff to consider. For instance, what if this isn't the afterlife, what if some science dinks pushed boundaries too far, and he's now in an alternate reality? That's a big deal because if it's not some type of afterlife, he should probably worry about sustainability. He REALLY don't want to farm and garden and all of that, because smells accompany those, but he can't hunt and forage stuff into extinction. And then, he's gotta consider other folks. If he arrived here, others could as well. John firmly believes that those who can make a difference have a moral obligation to do so; he builds, so he has a moral obligation to build for those who can't/don't want to. But perhaps it might be arrogant just to build a whole city for folks without allowing any feedback from anybody; perhaps he should build like a giant hotel for folks so everyone could figure stuff out together. And there's a bunch of other stuff, but for now he's building his home and hunting. 

I don't know if Vintage Story is special, any more than I know if Sacred 1 and 2 are special; they're special to me for the simple fact that I never grew tired of them. 

I remember Arachnophobia. I hate spiders.

 

[DocHoff 130]

4 hours ago, pevil said:

I love the mix of peaceful, artistic builder, and ruthless hunter preparing their next meal ;) That's a cool little detail though, and vastly expands your crafting materials for even more creativity.

If we want to talk about scary movies, only one has ever scared me. I love it and hate it in equal amounts. Arachnophobia. I do suffer arachnophobia, but mostly spider films don't scare me (or games, the only spiders in-game that ever freaked me out were the flat hairy ones in Sacred! I refused to go to certain areas for ages due to those things but eventually managed to get over it). Things like Eight-Legged Freaks are too over the top and silly so even the CGI spiders don't bother me. But I can genuinely see Arachnophobia happening. A particularly deadly species makes its way over here, interbreeds with a native species and they start killing off the town? Absolutely. Whenever I watch that film I am incredibly nervous about turning off lamps and getting in the shower!

Love me a good horror movie though (and a bad one). Watching plenty on Netflix while they're up, I'll have to check if they have Sinister on there.

Oh, while I remember, thank you for mentioning Enshrouded. There's no way my computer could handle that, but I'm all over it once it comes to consoles. 

[pevil 114]

No problem, it's definitely one to keep an eye on. The building is really flexible in it.

And thank you for mentioning Sinister, I watched it last night. Definitely unsettling!

[DocHoff 130]

44 minutes ago, pevil said:

No problem, it's definitely one to keep an eye on. The building is really flexible in it.

And thank you for mentioning Sinister, I watched it last night. Definitely unsettling!

 The second one... just doesn't quite have the flair as the first, in my opinion. Of course they say sequels are never as good, but I disagree in some cases. Hellraiser, Nightmare on Elm Street, Wishmaster, John Wick, the Bourne series, the Die Hard series; I found that all of these had better sequels than the originals. 

[pevil 114]

I have to agree, I often say sequels are never as good too, but I can name an awful lot that are! As well as a lot that aren't. Especially with horror films I think, the problem is you know what to expect in the second one so how do they make it have the same feel? Mind you one of the things that impressed me so much with Sinister was the soundtrack. Suitably creepy, all the music ever so slightly offkey but not enough that it actually hurt your ears, just enough to make it feel wrong. I'm away tomorrow night so I might well be watching the sequel in my hotel room if I can get Netflix

[DocHoff 130]

The Sinister tracks are unsettling. Who in the world have thought that just a child counting w bongo and stuff in the background would be so unnerving?

Hotel movie night, how fun! Some of my favorite horrors take place in hotels. 

[gogoblender 3,578]

On 10/23/2024 at 2:27 PM, DocHoff said:

Ahh, you want to talk about movies that follow us into our dreams? I have just one, Sinister. The demon, Bughuul, never killed anyone; he gave the kids that glowing green stuff for them to administer to their families. Imagine having your morning coffee one minute, the next minute you're laying immobilized on the floor, the following moment you're watching, helpless, as your child runs over your head with a lawnmower. Or hangs you blindfolded over a swamp to wait for an alligator to bite your head off. Sinister 1 is the only movie that got to me a little bit as I was walking out of the theater. 

I know this move... Pure atmospheric... loved it.  The violence was just enough, and the entire concept of that demon manifesting through children and then coming through in those videos.

PUre chill

nice mention Doc

gogo

ps good lord ... alligators so early in the morning...