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Glamorama26 posted:Nope! Larry Cohen films in general are that kinda strange though so just go watch Q The Winged Serpent, The Stuff and the It's Alive films. A very underrated film maker I'm on it! There were some really great shots in GTMT. I'd love to see it on Blu-Ray. Having a horror themed night with the roomies-- all stuff we haven't seen before. Started with God Told Me To, then watched Inside (which I really liked), and now we're about to start Final Prayer. Lil Mama Im Sorry fucked around with this message at 04:27 on Oct 31, 2015 |
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Final Prayer was fantastic. Father Calvino doing a Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram to no avail was great, with Mark and Deacon arguing over their perspective views of their Catholicism was a nice touch. And holy poo poo that ending was crazy and awesome.
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It Follows is the real deal gentleman. What a scary, beautiful, thought-provoking film.
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Lurdiak posted:
Pinhead is a They Might Be Giants Animorph.
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beergod posted:It Follows is the real deal gentleman. What a scary, beautiful, thought-provoking film. Thoughts such as "What the hell is that clam e-reader thing?"
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Lil Mama Im Sorry posted:Just ordered God Told Me To on amazon streaming. Excited as gently caress, yall. It's on Youtube too!
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Lurdiak posted:Thoughts such as "What the hell is that clam e-reader thing?" Seriously. That can't possibly be fun to read on. The screens are so tiny and separated.
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Lil Mama Im Sorry posted:I'm on it! There were some really great shots in GTMT. I'd love to see it on Blu-Ray. I want to say Blue Underground released a blu of it years ago, as well as most things Larry Cohen did.
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Oct 31, 2015 15:59
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Ash Vs. The Evil Dead is pretty much Evil Dead 2 filtered through multiple decades of memefication. First episode was entertaining, but I'm not sure if it's not gonna get old real quick.
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First episode of Ash was great. Perfect tone, great gore shots. I hope the following episodes maintain the same quality.
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I just watched It Follows last night. What an amazing film, I loved how they created this world where it was impossible to tell what time period it was even taking place in. Also that scare where the tall man walks through the doorway really got me.
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I like how the "clever plan" to catch it with the swimming pool immediately goes to poo poo. When I saw them setting it up I rolled my eyes and thought "Really, they're going to beat the monster using home alone tactics?" and then when it just started chucking heavy appliances at her I almost laughed. edit: Also there's some imagery symbolism with pools and swimming in the movie, but I'm not sure I can nail down what it is. Kind of a baptism/innocence thing. It's right after she swims out to the boat with three men on it that there is a shot showing that her backyard pool is empty/broken. This is followed by a shot of her "nice guy" friend looking at a picture on her wall of her in the pool, happy. It's a movie that does a whole lot just with visuals and not a lot of exposition/dialogue. Snak fucked around with this message at 19:11 on Oct 31, 2015 |
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Oct 31, 2015 18:56
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I think this might interest the goons of this thread: http://www.worldheadpress.com/killing-for-culture-all-new-book-and-documentary-299 Years and years ago someone on SA (I think it was Uncle Boogeyman) convinced me to buy this book and now its revised version is finally coming out.
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Is Let us Prey pretty decent? It's on Netflix.
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It's sort of... bonkers. Liam Cunningham is both charming and creepy, and I like the cop lady. You figure out pretty much immediately who his character is supposed to be, but I liked it quite a bit. Gets pretty gory at parts.
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Yeah I just finished it. Pretty awesome film and well shot. Some parts were a little off but that ending I thought was excellent. Hollismason fucked around with this message at 02:28 on Nov 1, 2015 |
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Happy Halloween! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQidfcNPSh8
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I'd forgotten how the fantastic opening of Scream was completely ruined by the dumbest loving following scene with her creepy loving boyfriend after it.
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I thought It Follows was really great, although most people in my Halloween Scary Movie Night group weren't in to it. Probably should have picked something with broader appeal  The only part of the movie I feel conflicted about was the showdown at the pool. That scene provided some of the movie's coolest visuals but also felt the most like a horror movie cliché.
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Lurdiak posted:Thoughts such as "What the hell is that clam e-reader thing?" The monster comes in the form of an STI not because it's specifically making a comment on STIs. An STI brings up two uncomfortable concepts for young people: regret and mortality. The regret of allowing your life to lead you to this place--even if it's wasn't all your choice--and having the face that something coded as young and youthful and exciting can be your undoing. Both of those things are defined by opposing forces of time. Mortality is the the inevitable future and regret is the past you cannot change. Thusly the real enemy in It Follows is time itself and that's reflected in stuff like the clamshell ereader. It Follows is a movie in which time is literally collapsing in on itself. The ereader specifically exists as simultaneously coded as retro, contemporary, and futuristic. Time is breaking down and attacking our protagonists from all directions.
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Timeless Appeal posted:I brought this up in the dedicated thread, but I don't think that stuff like the clam e-reader is just a kooky stylistic choice. I think you're thinking too hard about it.
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There's also the fact that the distinctive clamshell shape is closely associated with birth control packaging. 
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Cole posted:I think you're thinking too hard about it. You're not thinking hard enough. Clamshell is a cooch too.
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Timeless Appeal posted:I brought this up in the dedicated thread, but I don't think that stuff like the clam e-reader is just a kooky stylistic choice. This is a p legit concept - I think it's been alluded to, but not as concisely defined. More to the point; employing childish logic to deal with adult problems. Serious Party Gods fucked around with this message at 17:07 on Nov 1, 2015 |
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Blast Fantasto posted:There's also the fact that the distinctive clamshell shape is closely associated with birth control packaging. Get out of here with your crackpot theories. Clearly the clam shell represents the space time continuum.
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Lurdiak posted:Thoughts such as "What the hell is that clam e-reader thing?" I'm going with "a bad and unnecessary piece of production design". I know what they were going for with the production design in the film, but it wasn't needed thematically and that part in particular didn't work.
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So last night I did what I normally do for Halloween: stay home and watch scary movies. The first I saw was Halloween, which I had not seen before; nothing new to say there: horror classic, jumpstarted the slasher genre, very good. And the second I saw was Possession. What.. I don't...did I...loving....Just...  WHAT THE gently caress DID I SEE!? I'm not going to say anything or ask about any specifics because a) now I know what people mean when they say you should go in cold and I don't want to spoil the experience, and b)... I don't even know where to begin. I'd gotten the impression that it goes to a crazy place, and it absolutely does, but even in the slow moments, there's absolutely no semblance of anything that approaches reality. Nobody in this movie acts like a real person, it's set in this desolate wasteland without much human presence; it all feels like somebody's nightmare from the word go, and by the time the film started to throw the really crazy poo poo at me, I was rapt with attention.  So... well done, thread, I guess.(Seriously, just what the gently caress...)
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resurgam40 posted:So last night I did what I normally do for Halloween: stay home and watch scary movies. The first I saw was Halloween, which I had not seen before; nothing new to say there: horror classic, jumpstarted the slasher genre, very good. And the second I saw was Possession. This made me laugh really hard. Going in blink to both, with Halloween first. I can't imagine the head gently caress you got from Possession.
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resurgam40 posted:So last night I did what I normally do for Halloween: stay home and watch scary movies. The first I saw was Halloween, which I had not seen before; nothing new to say there: horror classic, jumpstarted the slasher genre, very good. And the second I saw was Possession. Its not for nothing that in the faq on imdb there's only one question about the movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082933/faq?ref_=tt_faq_sm
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Tomero_the_Great posted:I think this might interest the goons of this thread: that wasn't me but it does look cool.
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I watched An American Werewolf in London yesterday, which I haven't seen in about 5 years. That transformation scene still freaks me out. It's crazy that the movie came out in 1981 and the special effects still hold up well. It's too bad An American Werewolf in Paris is so lovely. Oh well.
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Haha, I went into possession blind early in the month. It's so bizarre, like every single factor and decision movie making wise is completely the opposite of what is "normal". It's like an un-movie. It's not my favorite film, nor the best I've ever seen, but it's unique and all the people saying it is the best I find I have no argument against. It's amazing.
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 I went into Possession blind on the recommendation of this thread and absolutely loved it. I still very clearly remember the day I watched it because everything felt so loving weird afterwards. Around the same time I also watched Occult, which is just as awesome. Both are uniquely weird films but in very different ways.
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I don't know if I've ever seen a movie derail as hard or as wonderfully as Possession. It just goes balls to the wall, and never gives up. I love it.
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I think Possession is a rite of passage for posters in the thread. I always love seeing people going " Just saw Possession. WTF".
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Hollismason posted:I think Possession is a rite of passage for posters in the thread. I always love seeing people going " Just saw Possession. WTF". i still haven't seen it. i saw Szamanka by the same director, which is definitely very weird but not that great. i'll have to tackle it eventually.
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Possession might be my favorite movie ever.
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Watched Candyman last night and after earning many college credits in African Study, my eyes were opened (Full on, the lids are both wide) to so much subtext in the film. One thing I noticed especially were the bees coming out of Candyman's mouth since many whties in the olden days believed BLack men can shoot bees out their mouth
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Maybe I owe it another look but Possession bored the poo poo out of me the first time I saw it.
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Art Alexakis posted:Watched Candyman last night and after earning many college credits in African Study, my eyes were opened (Full on, the lids are both wide) to so much subtext in the film. One thing I noticed especially were the bees coming out of Candyman's mouth since many whties in the olden days believed BLack men can shoot bees out their mouth
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