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diiejso t1_iyat944 wrote

Reply to comment by ivan510 in AMC Networks To Cut 20% Of U.S. Workforce As Cord Cutting, Streaming Costs, Economic Jitters Roil Media by MarvelsGrantMan136

You mentioned shudder. If you like horror check out Tubi. It's free (has commercials) but they have an insane number of horror movies.

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gaytechdadwithson t1_iyawfdg wrote

Tubi has minimal commercials and i watch more on that than any service that exists. i have access to about everything.

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KitchenReno4512 t1_iybnelj wrote

Don’t commercials take you out of the immersion that’s so important for scary movies?

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gaytechdadwithson t1_iybnlap wrote

somewhat, but often it’s a movie i’ve seen or the movie itself is just “meh”. so it doesn’t matter. this isn’t a knock against Tubi, just the shitscape of content out there

also, again, it has a shocking minimal number of commercials (for now at least)

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KitchenReno4512 t1_iybnuh3 wrote

Sweet. I’ll check it out. Thanks for the rec!

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gaytechdadwithson t1_iybnz6k wrote

np. Maybe I just don’t watch a lot of scary movies. Mostly comedy and documentaries, which they do pretty good on. I kind of feel like the first 20 minutes of anything I watch I don’t even see a commercial. So sometimes I forget i’m even using that app on my television.

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Varekai79 t1_iyd1mq6 wrote

I was thinking that too but there aren't that many ads on Tubi, just a couple every 20 minutes or so. Not a bad payoff for a free service.

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GuiltyGun t1_iyb3fyg wrote

Shudder is also fantastic but its pretty much all horror/thriller. There is an argument for variety with other services.

Note: I've had a Shudder sub for three years and I'm not canceling it lol.

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diiejso t1_iyb3qly wrote

Oh I wasn't trying to imply that shudder is bad but I figured anyone subscribed to it would also appreciate knowing about Tubi if they don't already.

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GuiltyGun t1_iyb3umn wrote

Gotcha. I'll have to check that one out. I'm assuming its not a lot of bleedover with Shudder's catalog.

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diiejso t1_iyb5mbf wrote

I'm not too familiar with the shudder catalog tbh. Tubi has a decent collection of mainstream but slightly older stuff but where they're awesome is cheap (mostly bad) horror if you enjoy that sort of thing. I'll just put random stuff in the search like "shark" and they'll have a few dozen oddball shark horror movies.

I searched for Thanksgiving the other day out of curiosity and found gems like The Last Thanksgiving (Meet the Brimstons. They're a normal American family with one exception: Every November, they hunt down anybody who doesn't celebrate Thanksgiving.), Derelicts (Thanksgiving day for a dysfunctional upper class family takes a terrifying turn when their suburban home is invaded by a gang of sadistic drifters.), and Thankskilling (A murderous turkey hunts down five college kids on their Thanksiging break. Can the survivors break the curse and defeat the possessed bird?)

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hacky_potter t1_iyczb64 wrote

For the price Shudder might be my favorite streamer. I love throwing on some random horror flick and just letting it ride.

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