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So it finally happened
Dead by Daylight: The Movie is now a reality after all this time.
Speculation time: Between everything that happens in the lore of dbd [such as the bleeds, the alternative realities, character backstories in general, everything that happens in the fog but outside of the trials, etc.] What do you guys think the plot of the movie is most likely gonna revolve around?
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Blumhouse makes the most generic and uninspired horror films I have ever seen. Not excited about the production company. A24 would have been a better get.
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I honestly couldn't tell you and that has me pretty excited.
The way I see it, these filmmakers definitely have options. They could go for something campy and schlocky by looking at one specific trial, or a new story about someone uncovering the existence of the Entity, or a story focused on one of their original killers' backstory...
There's a lot of different directions this could go so I'm pretty hype to see which one they pick!
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I'm excited, hopefully there's gonna be plenty of hillbilly in it. I'd love to see him on the big screen and sawing people in half with that chainsaw.
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You cannot be serious. Most of those are very very middling sequels to better movies. Is the first insidious movie good? Definitely. Is the sixth? Hell no. They make a hit and milk it for forever with bad sequels instead of moving onto something fresh. Also I'd say many of those are thrillers rather than horror. The purge and happy death day in particular.
Get out was excellent, but that was due to Jordan peele.
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Can’t wait for the scene when Dwight DCs after he find out it’s a nurse
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I think DbD would have translated better into a series than one standalone movie. You can only use a handful of killers in a movie while you could focus on a different killer each episode in a show.
though i do look forward to the movie nonetheless.
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God I love the Halloween trilogy that Blumhouse did even though a lot of people hate it. Lol I adore it.
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blumhouse makes bangers wym?? a24 makes cringy artsy movies which would not fit dbd at all
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Due to this collab there's a higher than 0% chance we could get vince vaughn as a survivor or killer in DBD and idk how I feel about that.
As for the news I'll wait and see who the director is, if it's David Bruckner or James Wan I'm hype otherwise I might be a little apprehensive about it.
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happy death day is literally a slasher movie???
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Oo very excitted about this
Obligatory joke
It is a possibility michael will get more screen time in this movie then he did in his latest one
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I'm assuming they only using orginal characters
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They could do a cabin in the woods type deal where we see a bunch of them for 2-3 minutes at the end.
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I am excited for it. Really curious to see who they cast as Dweet.
Also since they are now partnered with Blumhouse who made the new Halloween movies it gives me hope we might finally get some of these skins;
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It's not. It's a comedy thriller.
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I hope it's worth watching to say the least
But I fear that there might be too much for a single movie (If all of the original chapter are in it)
Also I can't wait to see DH used... LOL
Maybe we even see Killers and Survivors teaching each other their perks
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I have no idea what they're gonna do with this, but I'm just excited at the prospect that I could be enjoying this IP again since the game itself is a miserable experience lol
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Hereditary is the greatest horror film of the decade.
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Too much stuff in the lore for a single movie and a cohesive story. They'll probably keep it simple. Something like generic movie about people gettiing lost in the woods and waking up in a horror reality, then add to that some cult stuff to keep the door open for a possible sequel.
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Pretty excited for this. I imagine we will see a little bit of everyone instead of focusing on one or two of the killers.
If I had to guess the storyline, it'll probably be in a trial like setting where backstory flashbacks are slowly filled in among the action to see how the characters got there. Eventually the survivors all die, their memory gets wiped then it repeats with another killer over and over. Probably some background stuff with the campfire, library an whatnot and survivors trying to escape while not in a trial.
At the end they finally manage to escape a trial where you learn it never mattered, their memory gets wiped anyway and they're thrown back into a trial where it teases something different from normal.
I'm also calling it here, we'll see a brand new killer at the end or sprinkled throughout the movie which will then come to the game after its release.
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Spoiler: In the end, the indestructible Killer is defeated by a piece of wood wielded by people doing free squats.
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A group of survivor wake up in the woods, with no memory of how they got there. The survivors try to escape from Trapper, and are getting killed one by one by Trappers wide variety of complicated traps.
And at the end of the movie, after all the survivors are dead, they all wake up in a junkyard, with no memory of what happened. After walking around a bit, they hear a bing bong noise, Wraith appears and kills one of the survivors, and the movie ends right there.
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This will either we extremely cool or a laughably bad, and honestly I'd be here for both.
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Long as I get the see huntress, oni, blight, or any member of the legion I’m good
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Spoiler:
Survs ➙ Dwight, Meg, Claudette and Jake
Killer ➙ The Trapper
Realm ➙The MacMillan Estate
Final outcome ➙ 2kills (Meg and Jake) and 2 escapes
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I’m super excited as well. I also can’t wait to see what is in store for the new movie. I think it would be also funny to see the killer complain about gen rushing and survivors complaining about being tunnel and camp.
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I like how you're a stickler for calling happy death day a comedy thriller, and then proceed to call hereditary a horror movie, which it's mostly a family drama. Lol.
Also, a24 isn't a studio, so they don't make most of the movies they have under their belt, they mainly are a distributor.
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Most likely gonna be trash, so definitely passing on this one.
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I know it won't since it's a movie but I always thought a Squid Games/Alice in Borderlands-esque mini series would be awesome. Basically have ten episodes or so and have each episode a trial with a different killer as the survivors slowly piece together what is going on.
As for the movie, I'll be interested to see what they do. A self aware horror comedy like Cabin in the Woods would be fun. Straight up slasher where they just blow off The Trial part (so no gens or whatnot). Will it be a 4 v 1 setup or more of a Survivors v Killers with a bunch of survivors and killers in a Battle Royale kind of world. A focus on a specific survivor and their individual story.
Lots of things they can do
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That's like calling You're Next a horror film. It's not. It's a thriller. I'd also argue that a slasher has to have like a recognizable enemy. Like the collector or ghost face. I can't even remember what the guy from happy death day looked like.
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Yeah it definitely can be read that way and that is a big part of what makes it so effective. Are the events depicted reality, or is it about familiar relations through a dark lens? That's really interesting and gives you more to chew on than like.....a ghost pops out and rips your fingers off.
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Make no mistake Happy Death day is a slasher. There are tons of slasher movies that don't have iconic killers like Prom Night, Cherry Falls, Black Christmas etc.
Having comedic elements in a movie doesn't make it any less a horror either. The Scream movies for example have plenty of comedy moments among the slasher horror elements.
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Here's the thing I personally don't think it's effective at all in either lens. I really hate this movie. It's bad as a (slow burn) horror movie, and it's bad as a family drama. And I say this as a person who loves slow burn horror, and family dramas. Imo the only redeeming quality was the first 15 minutes and Toni's performance throughout, although not her best work. family drama comment was directly from Ari Aster, though, and I really do think it is intended to mostly be looked at through that lens.
That being said, going back to your original comment - a24 isn't really my favorite studio when they make their own stuff, nor do I have a positive light on them as a distributor. I personally think a dbd movie needs to be a popcorn flick/slasher, which doesn't really fit a24's MO anyways and blumhouse would be perfect for it. I don't think blumhouse is the best in the world either, and some movies coughGet Outcough are incredible
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should be a 3D movie starring Plague. 🤮
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Also, there will be a killer that gets aggravated by DH in the movie with that same horrible animation.
😳
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This movie should be a cross between Happy Death Day and The Thirteen Ghosts, the survivors dying and facing a new monster every time.
I really hope this film uses practical effects!
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I'd be way more excited if it was a series in netflix, prime, or especially, HBO.
but let's see what happens, hope they focus on the story and don't make it a generic slasher and PLEASE NO LEGION!!!!
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I can't wait for the scene where the killer just shakes their head no at the survivor between hitting them on hook for 2 minutes. Or when the killer just stands over a survivor laying on the ground for 4 minutes waiting for them to bleed out. Or the survivor that is spending the entire movie locker hopping and not doing anything else. Or the killer that at the start guards 3 gens for an hour and at the end all the survivors die because time ran out.
Maybe they'll do DBD version of Halloween Ends and none of the DBD killers are even in it, it's just the survivors.
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They better not cast Chris Pratt
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1 piece of lore that I despise and goes against these ideas is survivors losing all the memories from each trial,they should just retcon this tbh.
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Well I hope in the movie the survivors actually get to fight back unlike DBD survivors are treated as nothing but moving hitting dummies.
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My thoughts on this:
Trapper-kun will be in all the promo material and trailers and be statted as the typical antagonist in a slasher movie. Then at the mid-way point of the movie, the survivors will come up with a clever plan with Meg running acropatically through the Ironworks of misery, when Dwight gives the sign for Jake to throw a palette stack on his head and temporary stun him, while Dwights second signal leds Claudette finish the gen that they have tried to repair all the time. Everyone is happy and elated, when suddenly Hillbilly saws through the well next to Dwight and saws poor Dwighty boy down. Then a hatchet comes flying out of nowhere and snipes down poor Meg, with only Claudette barely escaping. Then the Killers fight over who gets the rights to hook Dwight and Meg and one of them manages to escape.
It is then revealed, that everyone is in some sort of limbo, that the Killers are as much prisoners, as are the survivors, and that everyone respawns eventually, but Trapper pays the price for his failure by getting drained of a memory, or some hope by The Entity, just letting him resent it even more, but not willing to let the pesky survivors take advantage of him a second time.
The first movie will feature mostly original characters, but if its a surprise hit, it could kickstart all kind of crazy feature films, in the vain of the late 80s and 90s X vs Y monster movies, were we see for the first time several classic slasher villains square off against each other or maybe even working together. Its such a golden opportunity, but because this stuff is expensive, BHVR would want to cement the franchise first, before entering on the negotiations with the big dogs. It could also facilitate maybe Fryday the 13th etc
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It’s too soon to talk about sequels, I think the movie should have multiple different killers. Start people off with something simple like The Trapper, change the direction with someone like Blight, Wraith or Hag and then go completely nuts with an insane killer like Nurse or Dredge.
Make it a crazy semi anthology film where people can go “Oh yeah my favorite was the one that screeched and teleported through walls” and debate which monster was the craziest afterwards.
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Actually considering it's blumhouse they technically could put in Jaime Lee Curtis and Michael if they wanted. That would actually be hype.
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I think what would make that interesting in my hypothetical TV Show is either the "main character" for some reason remembers previous trials (while everyone else he/she is with forgets) or almost a Memento kind of thing where they remember very little snippets but then they keep a journal or something they hide in the trail to piece together what is happening
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it will probably be a dragon ball z evolved kind of movie... so...
but cynicism out of the way...
i could see them telling the story of a random group of survivors - probably the original survivors or something like alice from the resident evil movies - where they are living their lives in a parallel narrative and then all of them end up in the realm together. they discover the archives and the movie's climax is with 1 of them escaping through a hatch discovering a second group of survivors and then the main protagonist escapes with (probably her) new team through the gates. the end of the movie is the team walking through the fog with the entity and killer staring at them from the realm.
if i had to guess i'd say dwight, claudette, meg and the trapper will be the cameos. nurse will possibly show up as the one that kills everyone in the first group.
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I'm so torn between wanting this to be a reserved, simple slasher plot with just the Trapper as the killer... and complete fanservice including Wraith, Billy, Huntress and Nurse.
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I both love, and am incredibly terrified of this idea, Mojo lol
I'm definitely interested after hearing this news, and looking forward to hearing more!
Also, I appreciate everyone keeping the discussion civil with one another, as well as those involved with the project. There will definitely be disagreements, but just remember its ok to agree to disagree.
As there was some argument earlier I hope I can add a clarification: By many standpoints, including those of the classic horror actors and directors, "Horror" and "Thriller" are often symbiotic, with a few key differences that can make them stand apart. Horror is usually defined as eliciting fear, with some degree of predictability, where Thriller is using suspense and mystery to elicit excitement, or "thrill" an audience, that requires the audience to have little to no idea what will occur next.
And obviously, a movie can be both a horror and a thriller. In regards to the film, Happy Death Day, that caused some debate, per the film's own description, is a "dark comedy slasher horror" (obviously the more comedic parts an homage to Harold Ramis' classic, Groundhog Day), but also tags itself a thriller as there is the suspenseful mystery element of the film.
But at the end of the day, no matter what you call it or describe it as, if you enjoyed it, that's all that you need or matters, really <3 Personally gave it a B-average, but I'm one of those that will take an old classic Monsters, Vincent Price, or 80's B-Movie classic (or something in-between being riffed by MST3K or Rifftrax) any day of the week, so I don't feel I am one to harshly judge newer offerings in the genres lol
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I don't expect a masterpiece out of Blumhouse, but as a horror enthusiast I've watched and enjoyed many of their movies. I'm looking forward to this! Hopefully it doesn't go the way of the Funko pops (still bummed about those)
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Plot twist, one of the survivors was the entity all along. Guess who?
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