When did every “scary” supernatural being in horror movies have to be so crunchy? Every hand movement, every head turn is always accompanied by so many crunchy tendon/bone sounds. I’ve been present for several real life mummies coming to life and even they weren’t THAT crunchy.
Crunchy > unnatural > scary. Probably triggers a "lizard brain" fear response, it's body horror. Makes sense if it's moving against it's natural range of motion (head spin in The Exorcist), but constant crunchy movement is overdoing it.
The existential horror of your joints popping? Man I could become an award winning Foley artist getting out of bed these days
It's called "elevated horror," Jhonen. That's where everything that happens on the screen is accompanied by the Minecraft impact sound.
It's a Hollyweird fad. Much like the use of Autotune so that anyone with no musical talent whatsoever can become a pop star.
I am crunchy because I have rheumatoid arthritis and I promise you that this does not make me supernatural or scary. The constant shifting of my physical form that defies the laws of space-time makes me supernatural and scary. The RA just makes me cranky.
All those mummies died before they turned 30. Life expectancy for supernatural beings now is much higher. They got bad joints like the rest of us.
It's because terminal back pains are terrifying. I should know.
Wet and squishy sounds are the new crunchy
The horrors of arthritis
I call them crickety witches, especially if they are coded female with shaggy hair.
Moisturizer isn’t the same as it used to be
The squishy sound effect for the undead soldiers in The Black Cauldron were made by stuffing a latex glove with cooked macaroni and then squeezing the noodles out of it like cake frosting.
Feels like they're all trying to replicate stop motion or something. Like they're trying to pull off the unintentionally creepy nature of the creature's and villains from return to oz.
These guys.
People fear age and 'scary movies' lost subtlety a long time ago.
You have a good point. Maybe it's the movie industry's way of telling movie goers that this is the part where they should start mindlessly eating their popcorn. It serves to mask the eating noises and fill Big Popcorn's pockets.
asmr artists sneaking into the horror scene to get their fix
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I always imagined all the bendable parts would pop. Once. One loud pop cuz they've prolly been still for god knows how long. So yea, the sound would be horrible. But only for like a minute.
...Yo wait you actually have it. See, a lot of those things are no longer physical effects. They're cgi, and as such lack an innate gravity to them. A way to make your mind get around "oh that's fake" is to introduce a physical aspect instead. IE: "that's too fast" "that's not how bodies work" 1/
"OH. Yeah you're right. It isn't how bodies work! So you hear that cronch? That's the demon moving them too fast or not quite right". When you tended to do it for like...Zim. it would be to accentuate the non human nature of it. But when it's all the time, for everything, including when 2/
Creatures shouldn't be that crunchy? It becomes like using the same stab effect a thousand times over. It becomes another example of cheap work or misapplied effects. TL;DR: used to be an easy way to use jank to your advantage. Now it's just poor work. 3/3
It's true, bog mummies are very uncrunchy.
We, the people, prefer crunchy.
More squishy wet unspeakable horrors please.
Blame The Ring. It did something different, and ever since then, the mediocre don’t do anything but replicate because they can’t seem to create something compelling themselves,
gummi mummis
I haven't seen any of those movies (the Golem in the silent film of that name which I have seen obviously doesn't count) but perhaps it's an opportunity to use the sound when the being is offscreen but the director wants to plant suspense?
Funny thing is, noisy critters actually tend to be quiet when offscreen so they can jump out and go "booga".
That's just what happens when you over thirty and don't do your stretches 😔
Here's another one along the same line. The tough guy dong the "neck crik" movement because the writer can only portray toughness using a cliche.
Wait, what do you mean by "crunchy", Jhonen? O.o
Don’t forget that when monsters/aliens speak, they’re always clicky
gmod animators got a prrromotion
Old people always have peanut brittle in their pockets. Ancient vampires and zombies are no exception.
Movie cameras are notorious for picking up sounds only dogs can hear. Everything sounds extra crunchy to dogs.
Somebody has to buy all that celery.
heeheehee. good one.
Little known fact: Most movie monsters eat cereal to maintain their power, and that's the crunching you hear
i have the same complaint about doulas
See what happened was audio recording tech improved and now we can hear sounds we couldn't before!
But they did sound like DMX when they recreated their vocals.
They should invest in a school desk table seat, great for reliving the crunchies all day
