• Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
    23·
    3 days ago

    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.

  • Wolf@lemmy.todayEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    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.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      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…

      • Wolf@lemmy.todayEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        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.

        • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          2·
          20 hours ago

          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?

          • Wolf@lemmy.todayEnglish
            2·
            19 hours ago

            I stand corrected. I’ll have to give it a rewatch at some point. I remember thinking it was a decent flick

            • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
              2·
              19 hours ago

              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?

              • Wolf@lemmy.todayEnglish
                1·
                15 hours ago

                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.

    • Anomalocaris@lemm.eeEnglish
      14·
      3 days ago

      weather alert, there’s a tornado on your way…

      hope it doesn’t launch a weird franchise

  • 1SimpleTailor@startrek.websiteEnglish
    62·
    3 days ago

    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.

  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
    English
    21·
    3 days ago

    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.

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    3 days ago

    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.

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
    29·
    3 days ago

    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.

  • CatherineLily@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    78·
    4 days ago

    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.

    • samus12345@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      14·
      4 days ago

      It says 24 hours of being chased by the villain. That means the timer won’t start until they start chasing you.

      • MotoAsh@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        That’d be a good Monkey’s Paw style answer if James Bond was anywhere near horror. People thinking they can kick back and sleep off a day just to end up with a big guy with metal teeth that can chomp through frigging steel cable busting in their door.

    • Corn@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      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.

      • MotoAsh@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        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!?

        • Corn@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          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?

  • Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.worldEnglish
    65·
    4 days ago

    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.

    • Grimy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      4 days ago

      This would work with a small investment in hard drugs before hand. Depends on how much prep time and street cred you have.

      • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        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.

    • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      13·
      4 days ago

      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.

            • CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.worldEnglish
              4·
              3 days ago

              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.

              • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                3 days ago

                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.