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FINALLY have some time to post some reviews! 1. Intruder (1989)  A fun little, relatively unheralded gem from Sam Raimi associate Scott Spiegel. And boy can you tell that Spiegel and Raimi shared a lot of sensibilities. Not only does the film feature a ton of acting from Sam and Ted, the camera finds itself with that same sort of restless creativity that would make Raimi famous. It's not nearly used in the same frantic, groundbreaking, manner that you get in the Evil Dead series but the spirit is there. I mean even the ending is straight out of Evil Dead, our main character screaming into the camera and evil wins Lots of wild angles or action staring the camera right down the barrel. The results is a fun low budget slasher with some really interesting shots.   Its a whodunit slasher set in a grocery store around closing time which leads to a lot of great set-pieces. I mean how many times do you get to see someone get smashed over the head with a jar of Wheat Germ? I found it all quite charming. But the star of the film is the gore. I am pretty shocked the Intruder is not talked about more for it's amazing gore effects provided by non-other than KNB. Definitely worth checking out for those alone. You can tell Sam was having a lot a fun being on the other side of the camera when the blood started spraying.  Maybe Intruder is talked about more than I think but I feel like this is a underrated gem. Certainly worth checking out for any Raimi-heads who are willing to expand out to their associates and friends (fun Bruce Campbell cameo as well!)  4/5 2. The Evil Dead (1981)  After Intruder I had to go back and check out an old favorite. Especially since Blank Check Podcast is in the midst of a Raimi miniseries. I will prolly revisit most of the series this month. What can I say about The Evil Dead that hasn't already been said? Not much! It's basically a perfect film. At least for me. So I will just list off a few things that stood out to me on this re-watch 1. The debate is always The Evil Dead vs. Evil Dead II and I think most people go with the sequel since it expands on the original so much, brings the comedy in, and the increased budget really shows. In the past I agreed. But more and more I prefer the original. It's not that I don't love the comedy in the series. Army of Darkness is wonderful! But something about the ultra low-budget nastiness in the first entry that works for me so well. 2. Imagine watching that final scene in theaters or at some drive-in when this film first came out. What a major freak-out moment that would have been. It still blows my mind. I love every clay-filled second. 3. The gush of blood when the stake gets pulled from Scott's leg still gets me every time. It's real nightmare logic. Well anyway I am preaching to the choir here. Evil Dead rules. Raimi rules. Campbell rules. Can't wait to watch the other ones for the 50 billionth time 5/5
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Franchescanado posted:How about that camera work though, amIright? Just floats around the sets like a ghostly presence. It's awesome. Yes that's it! Thank you! I like the way Bava's movies look and this is something I couldn't find the right words to express.
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11. Anna and the Apocalypse (2017) I almost turned this off in the first ten minutes when a song came up featuring a teenage boy moaning about being in love with the girl who’s his best friend. But even though I skip out during the first act of a lot of films, I hate tuning out *that* early, so I stuck with this a little longer, and it kind of charmed me a little. YA musicals are hardly my thing, but even though this felt somewhat bland to me, I got the sense that the filmmakers were trying very earnestly to entertain me with this production and I just went with it. Thankfully the gross friendzone storyline gets shut down hard in the middle of the film, though why even include it in that case? 3/5
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#10: Curse of the Crimson Altar The first ten minutes or so of Curse of the Crimson Altar writes some checks the rest of the movie can't cash. We get a really great cult scene, where a chick in medieval studded leather pasties whips a sacrificial victim for the benefit of a blue-skinned queen while a goat watches. Couple scenes later, we get a swinging 70s party where all the girls are in 70s see through bodysuits and one of them is hunted by guys in cars but it's all in good fun, she's having a great time. So I am on board, as on board as it's possible to be. Unfortunately the rest of the movie is mainly dudes in rooms having pleasant conversation. Those dudes include Christopher Lee, Boris Karloff, and Michael Gough, so, y'know not bad. But not the 70s romp I was promised. There's a lot of talk about torture implements that is not paid off in the slightest. Curse of the Crimson Altar is a decent enough time, but all the best stuff is front-loaded. 1) One Cut of the Dead, 2) Land of the MinotaurCH8, 3) Terra Formars, 4)The Great Buddha ArrivalCH5, 5) BogCH3, 6) Satan's Cheerleaders, 7) Zombie For Sale, 8) JeruZalem, 9) CandymanCH11, 10) Curse of the Crimson Altar
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 His House (2020) Challenge #11: Horror Noire South Sudanese refugees Rial and Bol are approved for government housing in London. They experience difficulties trying to fit in with a strange new culture and feelings of isolation and alienation. It doesn't help that their new home seems to be haunted by a witch that followed them across the english channel when they fled from Africa. This movie is more than just a spooky house flick and I can see viewers taking more away from it with all the different ideas it touches on. The actors are excellent, the cinematography is superb, it's a very solid and intense film. 5/5
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22 & 23. Twice-Told Tales (1963) & Tales of Terror (1962) - two three-tale anthologies, both starring Vincent Price, and both based on the works of a 19th century author - Nathaniel Hawthorne for the former and Edgar Allan Poe for the latter. And since Price stars in every story, that's like getting 6 Prices for the price of 2! Each has their strengths. I love Price as a villain, and he gets to play one in all three of the stories in Twice-Told Tales. That said, he doesn't do much different with each character. In Tales of Terror, there's a sizable difference in his portrayal of each character, but he's a victim in 2 of the 3 and the first one is incredibly weak. 4.5/5 for Twice-Told and 3.5/5 for Terror.
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13/13 - Road Games (1981) 3. Rated PG Fran's perpetual list of bitchin' movies pays off again with a relatively unobjectionable but stupidly fun horror thriller. Much like The Duel but with more smartasses and sex predator murderers, Road Games is a lot of fun for a Jamie Lee Curtis movie that I'd never heard of. The first half of the movie is filled with a lot of snappy and clever dialogue, but the movie somewhat falls apart in the second half as it focuses on 'hey who is doing all these rape murders'. Doesn't stop the movie from being much more fun than it reasonably should be. If you're stumped for a PG movie this time around, this is a really fun choice.  
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 It Came From Outer Space (1953) A classic of 50s theremin-core. Bug eyed monsters, space ships crash landing, a dash of Communism paranoia, its all here, but this is critical of mob fear about others. Old timey miners and stilted dialogue all show up, but the real star was the desert scenery, it was really good looking. Overall I tend to vibe with these 50s sci-fi movies so it was a good watch. 7/13 Movies: What Have You Done To Solange?, Kadaicha, Frankenstein Created Woman, Night Of The Living Dead (1990), Straight Jacket, Slaughterhouse Rock, It Came From Outer Space 2/13 Challenges: #1 Woodlands Dark (Kadaicha), #4 Music Of The Night (Slaughterhouse Rock), #6 The King In Yellow (Solange)
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7. Red Spirit Lake - dir. Charles Pinion (1993) Insanely weird and very transgressive. If you can look past the more transgressive stuff like the multiple sexual assaults, you'll find yourself in an extremely unique SoV horror tale about greedy land developers trying to buy/murder the last inheritor of a piece of land that's both beautiful and mystical. Aliens, angels/devils, witches, murderers, and spirits abound as the various characters get picked off in quick order. It's like a sleazier Twin Peaks at times, and that's when it's usually at its best imo. There's some cool shots, one of my favs is the lead walking down a hallway draped in blue and pink lighting. There's also a lot of shots that really make the snowy setting pop (well as much as SoV quality will allow). Can't exactly tell you what everything in the movie means, but it was still engaging and an interesting watch. 3.5/5 8. Detention - dir. John Hsu (2019) An eerie tale using the White Terror as backdrop. It has a great atmosphere, selling the oppressive and paranoid feelings of fascism looming over teens unable to fully process the danger they've wound up in until it's shoving their heads into burlap sacks. For 100 minute film it doesn't feel like it wastes a lot of time. It blends reality, flashbacks, dreams and the after life in an interesting way that makes each one threatening in it's own way. It's not perfect though, the menacing fascist demon feels like an after thought at times, disappearing for a huge chunk of the film only to re-emerge when the finale needs some more punch. I also would have had the Fang/Zhang relationship be one way, feels gross having him reciprocate the romantic feelings, which is a shame because the platonic mentor bond would have worked just as well.I'll have to check out the game this is based on, it's a neat story and I can see how being immersed in the world a bit more could make for a bigger emotional impact at times. Really enjoyed the film. 3.5/5 9. Sorority Slaughter - dir. Gary Whitson (1994) Very dumb, but there's stretches that have weird charming hang out vibes to it. The erotic dream sequence is surprisingly well done. Also features some comical near soft core porn stuff that had me laughing at how horny but reserved it was. About avg for SoV based on my limited experience with the genre. 2/5 MacheteZombie fucked around with this message at 05:28 on May 11, 2022 |
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gey muckle mowser posted:
 7) Death Walks on High Heels - 1971 - TubiTV On the subgenre sliding scale for Giallo, this one leans more to the heist drama end than the pure horror one. Storyline starts with a jewel thief murdered on a train and his daughter's being stalked in the hunt to find the diamonds the thief stole. Well, while this wasn't the worst giallo I've ever sat through, it wasn't particularly good either. There's not many killings in this compared to others, and there is some definite effort in avoiding the usual surreality that tends to crop up in gialli. There's a load of focus on Nicole doing mundane things like dancing and trying on clothes which felt like filler, but reading up a bit, turns out the actress playing her is the director's wife so that explains that. While I don't regret sitting through this, I really can't recommend it unless someone needs to watch something they've not seen yet for a giallo challenge.
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12. The Transfiguration (2016) I really kind of loved this. Basically an updated Martin, except the deglamorizing of the vampire myth serves a somewhat different function, as the “vampire” in this film doesn’t attack women, so that gender critique isn’t there. Instead this deglamorizing of a mythical predator seems to be more concretely about the loneliness of psychopathy. The filmmakers do a great job of eliciting sympathy for a serial killer with a totally opaque affect. Up there with the comic My Friend Dahmer in that regard. 4.5/5
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 Music of the NightSuck 2009 Directed by Rob Stefaniuk Watched on Amazon Prime  It's a comedy horror musical and it's not great. 💀💀 Spooky Non-American 1960s Challenge 8/13 1. Matango (1963), 2. Mill of the Stone Women (1960), 3. The Brainiac (1962), 4. Kill, Baby… Kill! (1966), 5. Gamera, the Giant Monster (1960), 6. Genocide (1968), 7. The House That Screamed (1969), 8. The Whip and the Body (1963) Bracketology 6/? 1. Night of the Living Dead (1990), 2. Strait-Jacket (1964), 3. National Theatre Live: Frankenstein (2011), 4. Frankenstein Created Woman (1967), 5. The Changeover (2017), 6. It Came from Outer Space (1953) GMM Challenges 4/13 1. The Other Lamb (2019), 2. A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985), 3. Madhouse (1974), 4. Suck (2009) twernt fucked around with this message at 19:13 on May 11, 2022 |
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gey muckle mowser posted:
 #11. Memory: The Origins of Alien (1941) (Shudder) A look into the artistic trends and forces that went into the making of Alien. This is a bit of an odd duck, as far as behind-the-scenes documentaries on filmmaking go, because it's less about the actual step-by-step process or decision making that went into the making of the movie in question so much as it is a documentary about the milieu in which those artists were working. I appreciate the attempt to go a step further in explaining and contextualizing the decision-making process around a film like Alien, which is so rich in design sensibility, thematic interest and impact. However, the simple fact is that there was not enough participation from principal parties, able to make their own cases or refute any thoughts that were brought up by other parties, to really make this anything more than art critique and theoretical spitballing. Dan O'Bannon and H.R. Giger are dead; Ridley Scott only speaks from archival interview footage; you don't get a ton of time hearing from the editor or the art designer or any of the other technicians who worked on the project. I can also understand why they were only able to get Veronica Cartwright and Tom Skerritt in to speak, but not having Sigourney Weaver in the picture at all - either as new or archive footage - seems like a huge gap in the film. (Actually, technicians and actors both kind of get shuttled to the side to focus on the triumvirate of writer-director-lead artist, so if you were looking for in-depth explanation of how they made that suit or the Nostromo sets or how it was to work on set and see any of that stuff, you're out of luck.) In the end, I can appreciate the intent to go deeper on artistic choices being made on the creation of an impactful film, but without really going into the practical realities of filmmaking - how do you make those designs into a suit? where does budget fit in? can constraints lead to better results than designs would have initially suggested? what do the suits from Fox have to say about their general reticence now? - and discussing with all parties, then it feels like a lot of theory-crafting and high-minded speculation that can't be directly or indirectly refuted. And at a certain point, that's not what I was really looking for out of a documentary; your mileage may vary. That, and it feels like they were exploiting this story to have an excuse to go get b-roll footage of Greek temples and give someone a green light and decent budget to make their Alien fan film about Greek furies loose on a spaceship, for some weird reason. So, I dunno, there's also a decent bit of the film that's unnecessary cruft that could have been cut out too. Sometimes, being inspired by good art only leads to mediocre results.  /5Watched so far: Night of the Living Dead (1968), Escape Room (2019), The Company of Wolves (GMM Challenge 9), Shutter (2008) (GMM Challenge 3), bunch o' shorts (GMM Challenge 7), Black Sunday (1960), The Hallow (GMM Challenge 1), Dr. Strange 2, Madhouse (1974) (GMM Challenge 10), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) (GMM Challenge 13), Memory: The Origins of Alien (GMM Challenge 5)
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Movie 7: Nosferatu (Sins of the Past) Is this your wife? What a lovely neck. How do you review a movie like Nosferatu? Obviously I can't put myself in the shoes of someone sitting through the movie in 1922, seeing what would have been fairly groundbreaking stuff at the time. Yet I feel this is what is needed if you want the experience to be anything but kind of comical at times. This is a fascinating experience, because I watched Vampyr a few days ago, and despite being only 10 years newer than Nosferatu, it felt a lot more ambitious, competent and modern. The acting is on a whole other level, the shots are more complicated and layered, the team used a lot of really neat tricks to pull off some frankly amazing special effects etc. But of course this is a bit unfair to Nosferatu, because those 10 years were extremely important in advancing the technology and art of movie making. It is also cool to see where so many of the archetypes, cliches and conventions of vampire movies come from. And I do stress the "movies" part, because Nosferatu is really Dracula with the serial numbers filed off. Instead of count Dracula, we have count Orlock. Instead of Jonathan Harker, we have Thomas Hutter. Apparently this wasn't so much an effort to plagiarize Bram Stoker's work, but rather to localize the movie for German audiences. Neat! But as a vampire movie Nosferatu really is groundbreaking, and establishes so much of the visual shorthand used in the genre for literally a hundred years. And honestly, Max Schreck is amazing as count Orlock. It helps that the movie has that not-quite-steady-framerate, wildly flickering and heavily contrasted look of early movies, but he is still insanely creepy in so many scenes. The way he barely animates his body as he walks, while his huge eyes eerily stare out of their black sockets, wildly rotating from side to side. It's awesome, especially when vampires in movies haven't been spooky in loving decades. And holy poo poo that shot of him rising out of his coffin on the ship. I have to say I did very much enjoy the movie's version of a werewolf -- obviously a confused and cute hyena someone chucked in the forest and aimed a camera at. You can keep pretending all you want, movie, but we both know what you're doing.   So at the very least Nosferatu is a hugely important movie, and is still definitely worth watching as a cultural and historical artifact. If you do, I would recommend watching it as a double feature with Vampyr, and preferably starting with Nosferatu, because then you'll probably be impressed by the progress movies made in 10 years, instead of bummed out by it like me.  / 5My May 2022 Movies: 1. Saturday Morning Mystery, 2. Ghostbusters Afterlife (Rated PG), 3. Superstition, 4. Vampyr (Hidden Gems), 5. The People Under the Stairs (Horror Noire), 6. Rock & Roll Nightmare (Music of the Night), 7. Nosferatu (Sins of the Past) Shaman Tank Spec fucked around with this message at 17:01 on May 11, 2022 |
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People were talking about The People Under the Stairs and covered most everything important about it, except for my favorite fact: Wes Craven cast the villain couple (after seeing them also play a married couple in Twin Peaks) because he thought they looked like Ronald and Nancy Reagan, and he hated the Reagans. It's also obviously thematic, but the hate was important too. Always knew he was a good dude.
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Pretty sure they talk poo poo about Reagonomics in the first ten minutes of that movie. It owns.
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Class3KillStorm posted:#11. Memory: The Origins of Alien (1941) no wonder they couldn't get more of the cast and crew, most of them probably weren't even born yet!
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33 This was a pretty enjoyable Sci-Fi/Horror/Thriller sorta dealy. It's quite a cast, but I think the best part is just that its like two different siege movies playing out at once. With the people outside trying to concoct ways in to the labs to find their kin, but then you got people inside trying to hide and barricade from those that are infected with the "rage virus" and then some bureaucrats just loving everything up along the way. Not enough Yaphet Kotto for my tastes, but the movie worked regardless and was a good time.  out of 534  This one was pretty good. Cant say too much about why it was fun, but it has a good hook and it knows when it should start winding down instead of trying to keep showing you too much and keeping things hidden in just the right amount of ways. Very depressing underpinnings though, like drat that poo poo is just bleak. Good one.  out of 535  Sort of a case of "The Poster is the best part of this movie", but then its got enough cheese and grime in there that its kinda enjoyable. This would've been a great like mini-series comic or something though so I wouldnt have to sit through the god awful acting and technical work. It's an odd amount of fun to be had in that they always approach this line of deplorable-ness that they never really fully cross over to. Like you'd expect there to be way more titilation, especially for a scuzzy 90's SOV deal, but someone had a brain on set and said "lets not shoot a shower scene in this high school, even though we could and probably wanted to, lets not". I didnt hate it, didnt love it. I'd probably re-watch this one with some friends and some beers and weed. It's a weird one. out of 5
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 Behind the ScreamsBehind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon 2006 Directed by Scott Glosserman Watched on Amazon  So, Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon does something that I've seen in a few other TV shows and movies. It asserts that other fictional works (Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, Friday the 13th) exist within its world. I know there has to be a term for this but I don't think there is. The other works or characters are diegetically subsumed? The movie itself is a lot of fun. I'm a sucker for stories in which crime or violence or supernatural weirdness actually has some really mundane undercurrent. It's a less mean-spirited Man Bites Dog. The double meta reveal wasn't a huge surprise, but it's a really enjoyable watch overall, full of clever setups. I'll definitely want to watch it again later to pick up on references that I missed this time around. 💀💀💀💀 Spooky Non-American 1960s Challenge 8/13 1. Matango (1963), 2. Mill of the Stone Women (1960), 3. The Brainiac (1962), 4. Kill, Baby… Kill! (1966), 5. Gamera, the Giant Monster (1960), 6. Genocide (1968), 7. The House That Screamed (1969), 8. The Whip and the Body (1963) Bracketology 6/? 1. Night of the Living Dead (1990), 2. Strait-Jacket (1964), 3. National Theatre Live: Frankenstein (2011), 4. Frankenstein Created Woman (1967), 5. The Changeover (2017), 6. It Came from Outer Space (1953) GMM Challenges 5/13 1. The Other Lamb (2019), 2. A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985), 3. Madhouse (1974), 4. Suck (2009), 5. Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006)
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Planning ahead, can someone spec me a movie from before 1950 that is freely available with the assumption that if it's well known, I've seen it?
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Jedit posted:Planning ahead, can someone spec me a movie from before 1950 that is freely available with the assumption that if it's well known, I've seen it? I actually haven't seen it myself but I intend to watch it at some point, The Most Dangerous Game is on HBOMAX.
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Basebf555 posted:I actually haven't seen it myself but I intend to watch it at some point, The Most Dangerous Game is on HBOMAX. HBO Max isn't free, but thanks for the rec.
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Ah, sorry when you said freely I took it to mean widely available on the major streaming services
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Basebf555 posted:Ah, sorry when you said freely I took it to mean widely available on the major streaming services Yeah, I've got Shudder UK but that's it - no Hulu, no Netflix, etc. Apologies for the confusion.
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There’s a lot of older stuff up for free on YouTube or Internet Archive. When I get a chance I’ll look for some of the less obvious movies of note I know.
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7. The Last Man on Earth The Price is Right I've seen I Am Legend and Omega Man several times and read the book ages ago, but never got around to this one. Love the opening bit where Price is robotically going through the motions. He's not cackling madly or throwing things around, he's well beyond despair or anything else, and just surviving. Beyond that this was entertaining. The "monsters" are pretty neat, they're closer to zombies than anything but since the book came out about 14 years before NotLD, that's not really a thing and they're vampires instead. The flashback sequence drags a bit but it's worth it for that bit at the end of it. Price of course is fantastic, and easily handles the demanding job of carrying what is essentially a one man show.
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Jedit posted:Planning ahead, can someone spec me a movie from before 1950 that is freely available with the assumption that if it's well known, I've seen it? Ok, here's the highly rated films I had pre-1950 that aren't the usual classics and are all freely available. I hope it helps. The Body Snatcher is a Karloff film directed by Robert Wise (The Haunting, Sound of Music, Star Trek, West Side Story) and produced by Val Lewton (Cat People, I Walked With a Zombie, the 7th Victim). I really liked it and I think really gives KALROFF a chance to showcase his acting skills. Its available for free on The Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/thebodysnatcher1945belalugosiboriskarloffvallewtonfilmdvdripillusions I Walked With a Zombie is probably a bit more well known of a Lewton film but less talked about than Jacques Tourneur's other classics of Curse of the Demon and Cat People. I think its a great film with a lot of very interesting subtext but its a very slowburn. It is also on Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/i-walked-with-a-zombie Dead of Night comes up a fair bit but is definitely worth checking out if you haven't. Its an early anthology that has some very good stories and a great wrap around. It is once again on Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/dead-of-night_20210519 The Unknown is a silent film from Tod Browning (Freaks, Dracula) that stars Lon Chaney and Joan Crawford in some pretty remarkable physical acting performances. Its under an hour though so it might not technically count. Like the rest its on Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/the.unknown.1927 Seven Footprints to Satan is probably the deepest cut on this list. I don't totally know how I came across it. Its a "lost" silent film that has been restored a couple of different ways. Its pretty weird and wild and I had a lot of fun with it. Weird blend of comedy, satanism, random monsters and gorilla suits. It left an impression on me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6XE26owTTE
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#11: Prey Challenge 2: Scream, Queen  A mixed race(Canadian/British) lesbian couple take in a strange man who is actually an alien in disguise. The presences of this alien masculinity upsets their relationship, which eventually falls apart, and then the alien kills them. I didn't care for it. It's a dull, unpleasant movie. 1) One Cut of the Dead, 2) Land of the MinotaurCH8, 3) Terra Formars, 4)The Great Buddha ArrivalCH5, 5) BogCH3, 6) Satan's Cheerleaders, 7) Zombie For Sale, 8) JeruZalem, 9) CandymanCH11, 10) Curse of the Crimson Altar, 11) PreyCH2
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gey muckle mowser posted:no wonder they couldn't get more of the cast and crew, most of them probably weren't even born yet! D'oh. Well, O'Bannon's wife tries to pitch him as some kind of prophet from the future looking back into the past for inspiration, so maybe my screw-up was relevant? It wasn't, I'm just an idiot.
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13. The Golden Glove (2019) Presents a universe of total and nigh-inescapable abjection that stuck to me when I paused halfway through for a bathroom break. I felt repulsed by myself for having physical needs, like the mere fact of being embodied was a mortal sin. Some people on Letterboxd seem to think this is great for demythologizing a real-life serial killer, presenting him as pathetic and near-powerless, some people seem to reject it as gratuitous misery porn. I don’t think it’s gratuitous but I think watching it as a peek into the world of serial killing could be a little gross. I guess if I found it valuable at all, it was as a portrait of the hopelessness in the milieu around the serial killing; the film itself takes its title from the name of the bar with a clientele of utterly impoverished alcoholics that was the serial killer’s regular hangout. I came away feeling slightly pissed off, but at what or why I can’t really say. Maybe at the fact that a world like this is possible? 3.5/5
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Jedit posted:HBO Max isn't free, but thanks for the rec. Free on Wikipedia: -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Most_Dangerous_Game_(1932).webm
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Servoret posted:13. The Golden Glove (2019) Basically my thoughts when I saw it when it was new. Personally I would've liked it more if the titular bar and its skeezy regulars was entirely the focus
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May 11, 2022 22:05
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Jedit posted:Planning ahead, can someone spec me a movie from before 1950 that is freely available with the assumption that if it's well known, I've seen it? You might try Eerie Tales (1919), a German silent portmanteau film starring Conrad Veidt. It's been too long since I've seen it to really give it a sales pitch other than to say that I enjoyed it. Not an expressionist film; this predates Dr. Caligari. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHa3P7an_yk Above that though, I’d second the recommendation for The Body Snatcher. That has a really strong Karloff performance and a great ending. Servoret fucked around with this message at 22:18 on May 11, 2022 |
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May 11, 2022 22:10
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Jedit posted:Planning ahead, can someone spec me a movie from before 1950 that is freely available with the assumption that if it's well known, I've seen it? https://archive.org/details/LeBrasierArdenttheBlazingInfernoIvanMosjoukine If you want something excellent that's really off the beaten path, The Burning Crucible is a surreal infernal comedic horror that I adore
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May 11, 2022 22:54
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gey muckle mowser posted:
8.a) Astronomer's Dream - 1898 - Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8SMIiQZUcs Synopsis is an astronomer has strange dreams, including a hungry moon. Pretty much this is what one would expect from Melies's work of the day. The hungry moon's a bit unnerving when it starts eating. 8.b) Pete's Putrid Peas- 2022 - Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXR3xpejjrk Plot centers around an Instagrammer who goes on a challenge of eating nothing but peas for three weeks. This does not work out well for him. It's pretty impressive how much they were able to pack in with this being a skosh over nine minutes. I guess it's a generational thing, but I don't get Instagram or TikTok. Youtube, I've got the True Crime stuff, cooking history, movie history, short movies, cryptid and mythology stuff. What I see of TikTok and Instagram just doesn't make much sense to me, you get likes and comments but that's it? I don't hear much about a financial benefit unless one shows ads or has a sponsorship, so is it all about the endorphin rush? Pete's definitely addicted to his social media which sets him on a destructive path, but one can't help but think of how this would've played out if he wasn't so addicted. 8.c) Summoning the Spirits - 1899 - Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilMjSQFQISA Here, a sorcerer shows off by conjuring faces in a wreath. For decades this was considered a lost film since for some reason Melies burnt all his surviving negatives near the end of his life, but a copy was found in 2007 and restored. Again, this is what to expect for films from this era. 8.d) Devil and the Statue - 1901 - Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F353oY5mM0s Story is the Devil tempts/torments a young woman who gets saved by the Virgin Mary. Despite the basic plot, because of the Devil's wild dance, this was just a fun sit through. 8.e) Life and Death of a Living Dead - 2022 - Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6yiuFOZKNM I don't get to say this often, but I did NOT see that ending coming. Plot follows a very 'It's Complicated' relationship with a zombie. This one was very good. While there is no dialog, it was still pretty compelling. 8.f) The Monster - 1903 - Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAnSxaR_fKw Plot follows an Egyptian prince who has a priest ressurrect his lost love. While it doesn't go well, it doesn't go as bad as it usually does in the horror genre. The choice of title's interesting in it's not sure who it applies to. Is it the prince for wanting the ressurrection, the priest for ressurrecting, or the dead for getting ressurrected? This was a nice quick watch. 8.g) The Black Imp - 1905 - Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USIrSXLHh-0 Story is a demon manifests and is up to mischief. Having sat through so many of these with similiar themes, I have to admit there's a certain charm to them. The Devil or demons are just here to poke fun or have a good time rather than always being malicious and/or murderous. 8.h) The Ice Cream Man - 2020 - Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdebPS8GEMM In this one, eating a late night ice cream has nightmarish results. Overall, this wasn't bad. It felt like it could be fleshed out into something like a Tales from the Crypt or Monsters episode. 8.i) The Sealed Room - 1909 - Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7hAYecvKxU Here a nobleman constructs a special private room for him and his wife to have privacy, but when she cheats on him, the room gets a new purpose. This was a pretty decent revenge entry. Apparently it's partially based on Poe's Cask of Amontillado which I haven't read in ages. This had a bit of a modern feel to it with how everything played out. Overall, I liked it. 8.j) ASMR - 2020 - Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JZvZc15-6Q Storyline is a late night ASMR viewing goes wrong. Add ASMR as another thing I don't quite get, mostly since I have no reaction/response to it. I've watched some, but I get no tinglies, euphoria or relaxing sensations that everyone else feels. Not sure what that says about me, but then I also have an inner monologue while others don't so go figure. This short was okay overall. 8.k) The Mannequin - 2021 - Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dKkLNh58ss This was a pretty by the book creepy mannequin story. It wasn't horrible but it wasn't anything standout either. I think it could be fleshed out more if it was a skosh longer. Overall, I liked it.
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May 11, 2022 22:55
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6. Zombarella’s House Of Whorrors (2019) Directed by Tim Ritter, Tony Masiello  Zombarella's House of Whorrors is an anthology film wrapped in an Elvira meets WNUF meets SOV gimmick. We have trailers, host segments, many fictional sex line commercials from both men and women, and the largely throwaway anthology films, which are poorly scripted, poorly acted, and very cheerful boob-filled gore fests. If you're into the campy side of the SOV world or Suicide Girls, you'll love it, I honestly didn't care for it too much until the Black Devil Doll From Hell reference, then it charmed me. 3.5/5
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May 11, 2022 23:17
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 Venom (1981) Three way grudge match movie with Klaus Kinski vs. Oliver Reed vs. a black mamba with Sterling Hayden as guest referee. Lots of big personalities just throwing around their acting gravitas in this. Loved it, 4 stars.  The Evil (1978) Solid haunted house movie, I thought it shared a lot of bones with John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness. Story revolves a college professor bringing a bunch of his students to a haunted house where the inevitable happens. There's some fun effects, I love the actors just getting yanked across the set by wires, it looked painful. Starts off a little slow, but once they're in the house, it gets rockin'. 3 1/2 stars.
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I've been watching a lot of horror films and not posting them, let's fix that. More to come when I can be bothered to do the short writeups for them. 6. Ghosts of Mars  John Carpenter has always been great for light and shadow, so it baffles me that this film (set at night in the martian desert) is entirely brightly lit. It's incredibly cheap looking, so why not turn off the spotlights and add some mystery back in? It really feels entirely like a TV movie. The punches don't connect, some costumes don't allow the actors to raise their arms, and the villain literally yells "Ra! Ra raaa!" the whole time. 7. Frankenstein Created Woman  It's creative to use the idea that Frankenstein did not just create life but merged flesh to spirit to tell a story like this: young lovers treated unfairly and cruelly and take their revenge after dying and being merged into one entity by the eponymous doctor. It's a pity that the only interesting characters are the incredibly selfish Dr. Frankenstein and the horrible rich louts. 8. Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness  (Challenge 3: Rated PG) There's a five-star Sam Raimi horror movie here held back by about 75 minutes of interminable, MCU-building, contractually-obligated dialogue where two actors stand in front of a green screen and nothing happens. I'm begging you to shut the gently caress up. When Sam Raimi has fun, he has fun, and I do too. He has a wonderfully hammy Bruce Campbell cameo. He reuses the iconic shaky-cam perspective from Evil Dead. He goes to town with drips and goops. He blends horrific imagery with Three Stooges comedy. This mostly happens in the last act of the movie, and I couldn't blame anyone for checking out long before then. If the end feels fully Raimi, the beginning seems more Sorkin, in all the worst ways. In summary, one and a half stars for the beginning and four and a half stars for the best of the ending. I think we are all tired of the Marvel movie factory approach to action-comedy. When you ask the biggest fans for their favorite movie, a lot of them will name one of the genre films instead, one of the times that we actually got to see what the director wanted to make. Winter Soldier was a spy film, Guardians and Ragnarok were straight comedies, and Wandavision a drama. This could have easily joined that list. If I could go back in time and speak directly to the studio, I'd beg them to let them make the movie Sam wanted to make. If you'll allow me a bit of what-if fanfic, I think he could have killed an adaptation of House of Leaves' Navidson Record as a Doctor Strange vehicle. It's already a story about a deeply arrogant man with relationship issues making things worse for himself and those around him as the laws of physics break down, but it's set in the kind of haunted environment Raimi was made for. I was totally fine watching the spaghettification of John Krasinski, though. Samfucius fucked around with this message at 15:31 on May 24, 2022 |
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