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The Lost Coast Tapes is about a documentary crew who travel out into the forest to see the corpse of a Bigfoot, that a hunter has killed - and it gets more crazy from there. It's found footage style and I really enjoyed it. YellowBrickRoad is an okay film but has a much smaller budget and it shows. It's about an entire town that went missing. It's been years since I've watched it. Altitude is another good film and while it might not be exactly the kind of thing you're looking for it has some Coast to Coast AM tropes like missing planes, time loops, and a giant Cthulu rip-off in the sky. The Mothman Prophecies looks beautiful and there are so genuinely creepy moments but it's not a great film overall. The Fourth Kind (a documentary/drama hybrid) is an interesting concept which doesn't translate too well. I wonder if a superior director could have made it better. Altered is an underrated horror film about some guys who were abducted by aliens when they were kids and now they're grown up, one of them has killed an alien. The other aliens are not pleased about this and things get progressively worse for everyone. It's much better than I've just described. And I know these aren't movies but old episodes of Unsolved Mysteries are available on YouTube and some of the UFO segments (Guardian, Gulf Breeze, Rendelsham) and the Big Foot segments are very Coast To Coast.
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Just watched the 1992 Wicked City film and I need more of this beautifully lit, hyperkinetic style in my life. Would be cool if some suggestions were wuxia films as that's not a genre I'm super familiar with. Bottom line, looking for colorful/colorfully lit gonzo films that will make me  but in like, a good way.
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Gripweed posted:I’m looking for Coast to Coast AM style horror movies. That’s horror movies that cover the same sort of topics, (aliens, skinwalkers, secret government projects, etc) or that give you that same feeling where the night is deep and full of mystery. As others pointed out, Mothman Prophecies and Fire in the Sky are the mandatory spot-on watches for that, but for that feeling of credulity and, well, unsolved mystery in the face of the supernatural, also check out Jacob's Ladder and especially Picnic at Hanging Rock. The last might be a bit too classy if you want thrills or scares, but it's probably the godfather and The Godfather of this type of thing. If you were looking at TV too, you might check out The Bellero Shield episode of The Outer Limits because it arguably spawned a lot of the mythos you're interested in, but the episode itself is not the kind of thing you're looking for.
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Oh yeah Picnic at Hanging Rock is just fantastic
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Thinking about this, Resurrect Dead would fit with the spirit of the ask, even though it's a documentary and the horror vibes are slight. Absolutely feels like a descent into a C2CAM world of conspiracy and pursuit of an elusive cryptid. And the whole thing is up on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYTK6QicICo feedmyleg fucked around with this message at 20:37 on Apr 7, 2024 |
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Can anybody recommend any good political thrillers? I've recently watched The Parallax View and Three Days of the Condor and they've been great. Bonus points if they're from the 70s because I love the aesthetic but this isn't a necessity. Similar films I've enjoyed are The Ghost (Writer), Day of the Jackal, early seasons of US House of Cards and the original British House of Cards.
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Kosmo Gallion posted:Can anybody recommend any good political thrillers? I've recently watched The Parallax View and Three Days of the Condor and they've been great. Bonus points if they're from the 70s because I love the aesthetic but this isn't a necessity. Z by Costa Gavras is a hugely engaging thriller that manages to be bleak but offbeat and even playful at times. If you're into it you could follow it up with State of Siege and Missing by the same director. I'd also recommend The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, which definitely centres the politics more than most le Carré adaptations I've seen (not to say you wouldn't enjoy others). If you're keen on the 70s vibes, strictly speaking The Conversation isn't overtly political (but is a paranoid thriller) and The Conformist is more of a drama (but is overtly political) so I'm going to throw them in anyway in case you haven't seen them. They're fantastic films, not least aesthetically. Lastly, if you want to cap things off you probably should see Winter Kills, which isn't quite a solid-gold classic like the above but works pretty well as both an example and satire of the genre, and features an absolutely stacked cast.
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The Conformist is incredibly good. Good rec.
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Seconding the The Conversation rec, that one’s excellent and absolutely nails the same conspiracy vibe as the ones the OP mentioned. It’s earlier, but Seven Days in May (1964) is a very good Frankenheimer (with a screenplay by Rod Serling!) about a military conspiracy to take over the presidency. Capricorn One (1977) is a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine. It’s nowhere near the caliber of the other movies mentioned here, but it has the fun angle of centering around a NASA conspiracy to fake a launch and subsequent Mars landing because the craft they’ve built is actually faulty and would accidentally kill the astronauts en route. James Brolin, Sam Waterston, and uhhhhh OJ play the NASA astronauts who won’t go along with the conspiracy and end up being hunted by the government after they escape custody. Meanwhile, Elliot Gould plays a Houston journalist investigating the mission after being tipped off that something’s not right. It nails the conspiratorial tone you’re looking for and it’s basically a dumb fun popcorn watch. I always see Marathon Man (1976) come up in recs for conspiracy thrillers but I’ve never actually seen it. Big Mean Jerk fucked around with this message at 02:18 on Apr 11, 2024 |
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Blowout for an incredibly well made but still schlocky political thriller in the vein of The Conversation and Snake Eyes for a film that doubles down on that.
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Wait, did nobody seriously say Chinatown? We should be ashamed
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All the president's men The manchurian candidate
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There was a film series at BAM last month called The Paranoid Style in American Cinema, 1974-1999. https://www.bam.org/film/2024/the-paranoid-style
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I’ve never thought of Body Snatchers as a conspiracy, but I guess it definitely is.
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Kosmo Gallion posted:Can anybody recommend any good political thrillers? I've recently watched The Parallax View and Three Days of the Condor and they've been great. Bonus points if they're from the 70s because I love the aesthetic but this isn't a necessity. Not 70’s, but you should check out The Ides of March.
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Blowup, The Conversation, and Blowout form a triptych, so if you like one you should make your way to the other. Blowup came first and, in the tradition of the director's L'Avventura, is too into ambiguity to make things definite enough to count as a political thriller; The Conversation is great like Blowup but also so generally mysterious it's not a political thriller (but vaguely corporate?); Blowout just isn't quite as good, but the ambiguity or unknowability it sacrifices makes it explicitly a political thriller. And a good bit of fun. The Conformist could be watched on mute just for the colors, but yeah unmute it for Fascist politics.
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If you don't mind something a little less grounded in reality there's Terry Gilliam's Brazil
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Gaius Marius posted:Blowout for an incredibly well made but still schlocky political thriller in the vein of The Conversation and Snake Eyes for a film that doubles down on that. what I love about Blow Out is that it's De Palma doing a not-so-sneaky remake of Anthonini's Blow-Up, and kicking Anthonini's rear end. as for political thrillers -I'd recommend Polanski's The Ghost Writer, the Cumberbach vehicle and based-on-a-true-story The Courier and, despite the marketing selling it as a tragic romance film, Ralph Fiennes in The Constant Gardener
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Dr. Yinz Ljubljana posted:what I love about Blow Out is that it's De Palma doing a not-so-sneaky remake of Anthonini's Blow-Up, and kicking Anthonini's rear end. Naw, Blowout is a good movie. Blowup is a transcendent piece of art that forces you to reflect on the very nature of the medium.
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What's an adventure movie that blends sci-fi and fantasy in a cool and fun way like KRULL? My buddy and I watched KRULL a while ago, and he's always asking me for something similar, but that movie's weirdly specific in tone and style. Beastmaster kinda scratched the same itch, although it doesn't have the sci-fi elements with the fantasy. I watched Zardoz, thinking it'd maybe work, and while that movie is a lot of things, it's not in the same vein.
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Franchescanado posted:What's an adventure movie that blends sci-fi and fantasy in a cool and fun way like KRULL? Yor, the Hunter From The Future....fair warning it really really really sucks though.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Yor, the Hunter From The Future....fair warning it really really really sucks though. Ha. I thought of this one too but chose to not recommend it. It's a tough mix to find because usually fantasy is reactionary (we need to fight this change to the status quo) whereas science fiction usually treats change as a fait accompli and the conflict is more about preventing a negative change or transforming it to a more benign one.
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Franchescanado posted:What's an adventure movie that blends sci-fi and fantasy in a cool and fun way like KRULL? Flash loving Gordon
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Highlander II: The Renegade Cut. 
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Franchescanado posted:What's an adventure movie that blends sci-fi and fantasy in a cool and fun way like KRULL? You, my friend, are looking for Quest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wypg397JqKk An incredible sci-fi/fantasy film short from Saul Bass, his only major film work outside of Phase IV. You also may enjoy Wizards of the Lost Kingdom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_glxORVlRx0 Mostly fantasy, but at least scratches the itch a bit more than Beastmaster. e: Other things that I assume are too obvious or not as trashy: - Dark Crystal and The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance - The Secret of NIMH - Tron - Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind feedmyleg fucked around with this message at 23:14 on Apr 12, 2024 |
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Ralph Bakshi’s Wizards
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feedmyleg posted:- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind There's a bunch of anime series that would fit the bill too. Aura Battler Dunbine, Turn A Gundam, and Panzer World Galient spring to mind. Hell, the theme song to Panzer World Galient should scratch that itch quite nicely https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnkqp4d38qY
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Escaflowne too
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looking for foreign (im American so foreign is anything not American or UK) vigilante movies like Rolling Thunder, Death Wish, Harry Brown, etc
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Vampire Hunter D and Vampire Hunter D : Bloodlust. In a post-apocalypse ruled by vampires, the half-human son of Dracula is a professional vampire hunter, killing mutants with a giant sword and rescuing nubile young women. The apocalypse happened after a sci-fi future so there’s all sorts of ridiculous scrounged laserguns and the horses are all cyborgs. It honestly kind of rules.
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Gripweed posted:There's a bunch of anime series that would fit the bill too. Aura Battler Dunbine, Turn A Gundam, and Panzer World Galient spring to mind. Hell, the theme song to Panzer World Galient should scratch that itch quite nicely Hell, to go back, Castle in the Sky counts, too.
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Kvlt! posted:looking for foreign (im American so foreign is anything not American or UK) vigilante movies like Rolling Thunder, Death Wish, Harry Brown, etc I'm saddened UK doesn't count but for more modern takes there's The Rover, Dheepan, Elle sort of
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UNRULY_HOUSEGUEST posted:I'm saddened UK doesn't count but for more modern takes there's The Rover, Dheepan, Elle sort of i was more just saying no American/UK bc Ive seen a lot of them but feel free to toss out recs!!
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Kvlt! posted:i was more just saying no American/UK bc Ive seen a lot of them but feel free to toss out recs!! Have you seen Only God Forgives?
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Kvlt! posted:looking for foreign (im American so foreign is anything not American or UK) vigilante movies like Rolling Thunder, Death Wish, Harry Brown, etc Chopper - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSELr4Dk3eo Mad Max Or are you lumping Australia in with the UK?
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Xiahou Dun posted:Have you seen Only God Forgives? Yup, i love that movie!! Bald Stalin posted:Chopper - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSELr4Dk3eo last i checked Australia wasnt part of the UK
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Kvlt! posted:looking for foreign (im American so foreign is anything not American or UK) vigilante movies like Rolling Thunder, Death Wish, Harry Brown, etc In Order of Disappearance is fantastic.
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