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MacheteZombie posted:Haven't we pulled grotesque before? I believe that was a non-bracketology stream viewing. Koji has had a bad run so far, out first round three times
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Tarnop posted:I believe that was a non-bracketology stream viewing. Koji has had a bad run so far, out first round three times I dont see grotesque changing that which is a bummer, but is what it is! The prowler is a fun match up for it though
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I've enjoyed most of the Koji flicks I've seen, but I've been dreading watching Grotesque. I've read some things about it, and I'm fine with a certain type of gore.. I have a bad feeling about this drop...
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MacheteZombie posted:I dont see grotesque changing that which is a bummer, but is what it is! Yeah I don't expect Grotesque is going to go down particularly well Still, he's got all his best films left for next year!
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Philthy posted:I've enjoyed most of the Koji flicks I've seen, but I've been dreading watching Grotesque. I've read some things about it, and I'm fine with a certain type of gore.. It’s so insanely gross and mean it kinda wraps around to an almost comically ridiculous point. But yeah it’s uh….a lot.
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Mar 12, 2024 01:56
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I read the summary of Grotesque on Wikipedia. Yeah I ain't watching that!
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The best part of Grotesque is seeing the actor who plays Kudo Jin in the Senritsu Kaiki File series playing a very different kind of rear end in a top hat. I didn’t like the movie, but as far as imitating Western torture porn goes, Koji hit the mark, and maybe even outdid the originators. It’s kind of like Funny Games if the director was really into going for broke with gore instead of trying to castigate the audience for imagined failings of taste and/or morality.
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I made it half way. That's about as far as I'll go today. Hooo boy.
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Darthemed posted:The best part of Grotesque is seeing the actor who plays Kudo Jin in the Senritsu Kaiki File series playing a very different kind of rear end in a top hat. It really is a rather smart movie for also being just incredibly violent and messed up. Philthy posted:I made it half way. That's about as far as I'll go today. Hooo boy. I dont blame ya for needing a break. I found the end to be worth the misery to get there.
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Will be voting Sixth Sense over Errementari because I love MNS not because Errementari is bad in any way or form. Prowler is boring and gross and I don't really want to watch Grotesque, so I guess I'm abstaining?
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Grotesque certainly lived up to its name, and I think Koji Shiraishi achieved what he was trying to accomplish. Reading up on an interview, it seems a production company came to him and asked him to make the most brutal movie and paid him to do it. I wish they'd have just paid him to make a higher budget paranormal flick instead. Bleah. The Prowler was unexpectedly good. I immediately noticed how well done the kills were, and I was trying to figure out how they did some of those. I wasn't aware Tom Savini did the effects, but it makes sense now. I also wasn't aware the director would go on to make one of my favorite Friday the 13th movies starring Corey Feldman. This was an easy choice for me. Sorry Koji, any other movie of yours would have likely won this round. The Sixth Sense vs. Errementari. While Sixth Sense is a good movie, it never wowed me. The twist thing was cool back in the day, but it didn't floor me like it did everyone else for some reason. Errementari. Man, what a kickass flick. I'm not sure what I can say, I was floored by all the costumes and effects, and especially the story. I am looking forward to rewatching it in the future.
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It’s Saturday. Blah blah blah. Sorry. I’m very beat up. And gotta watch three movies and do writeups? Let’s see, we have 40 hours left? But gotta do it before I get wasted tomorrow. And the Knicks pick now for a west coast trip. Sigh. Happy St Paddy’s Day. You can vote in this round until 12 noon EST Mar 18th (or when I get to it) Next Week! 1. Older Than America vs. 16. Undying Love 8. A Crate of Crichton Fright Freight vs. 9. Larry Fessenden
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Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil vs. The Sixth Sense: 8/10 vs. 7/10 Grotesque vs. The Prowler: 6/10 vs. 5/10 The Sixth Sense is probably my favorite Shyamalan film. Good performances, use of color, camera focus, creepy ghosts, and an effort (maybe overplayed at times) to really humanize the characters. The twist(!) has been turned into a dead horse slurry by pop culture, but the film is good. Very good. However, I am a very big sucker for folklore horror, and Errementari pounded a few more nails into the coffin by utilizing Renaissance designs for the devils. We don't get those nearly enough in horror cinema, so that's the film that gets my vote. I love Koji Shiraishi as a film-maker. Grotesque is not what I want from him as a film-maker, at all. That said, he does a very good job mimicking the western torture porn style, and to be honest, takes it to a Guinea Pig-ish extremity that puts the western ones to shame. The Prowler, meanwhile, is (to me) an unremarkable slasher. The main thing it has going for it is Tom Savini's special effects, and those get left in the dust by just how explicit Grotesque is willing to be. Don't really like either of these, but Grotesque gets my vote.
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Yea I absolutely love the designs in Erremantari. So good.
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  Errementari gets a lot of love but ultimately falls handily to The Sixth Sense. Tough break really. For Night that’s two straight wins and he moves into the second round where he has a chance to even his record at 3-3 and advance into the Sweet Sixteen to try and make a championship run. His opponent will be NYC’s Grime Connection as The Prowler also easily overtakes Grotesque. Koji was not without some love for his exercise in “torture porn” but ultimately it drops him to 0-5 in Bracketology history. Again, tough break. But Night and the Grime Connection will come back around in two weeks to see what they have. But first lets finish up the first round of Elvira’s movies. 1. (mbd’s Older Than America) Georgina Lightning’s Older Than America vs. 16. (Kangra’s Undying Love) Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die  Last year’s HalloweeNIT winner debuts in the main tournament with its self titled film. A team made up of First Nations stories Older Than America is a film that walks the line between horror and drama tackling generational and cultural trauma due to the sins of well you know. “American Evil” might have been a shameless repackaging to try and capitalize on the small role Bradley Cooper plays in the film but its not wrong either. On the flip side we have a cult name in Jarmusch making his Bracketology debut with an absolutely stacked cast of names in a zombie film that is… weird. I’ve seen this one and I still don’t know what the hell to make of it. Its very weird. One that seems likely to really hit or really miss with each individual viewer. Its a curious matchup and the 16 seed has the name power over the 1 seed for sure. But two very different kinds of films with both very curious approaches leaves a matchup that feels pretty wide open. As someone who has seen both movies I don’t even know how I’m gonna vote. Older Than America aka American Evil is available for streaming via AMC+ and Tubi. The Dead Don’t Die is available for streaming via Cinemax. 8. (Kangra’s A Crate of Crichton Fright Freight) Barry Levinson’s Sphere vs. 9. Larry Fessenden’s Beneath  Larry Fessenden’s appeared in Bracketology a ton of times as an actor (including in the other matchup this week!) and a ton of directors have appeared who got their break with his production company Glass Eye Pix, but now he finally makes his directorial debut. Maybe not a long run for him either as Beneath is NOT well reviewed. What looks like it could be a very fun basic creature film doesn’t hit with many and those it does seem to regard it as “bad film” good. And on the flip side we have all people Barry Levinson. Rain Man, Good Morning Vietnam, The Natural. But I guess he made some horror movies too? Or at least a star studded sci fi adventure that features what I believe is the Bracketology debut of Queen Latifah and Huey Lewis. A truly historic matchup. But well the reviews aren’t so great for this one either. So how does this one play out? The low budget indie bad creature film vs the huge budget Hollywood blockbuster bad creature film? Is there enough charm in Fessenden’s work to win out or enough excess in Levinson’s work to salvage it? We’ll see. Sphere is available for streaming via Hoopla. Beneath is available for streaming via Screambox and USA. A weirdly star studded collection of movies this week. When’s the last time we had Bradley Cooper, Dustin Hoffman, and Bill Murray in separate movies? Or Iggy Pop and Huey Lewis? Or Selena Gomez? And a low budget NYC indy that probably ain’t gonna do so great. But who knows? Its a weird lineup of films with no real standouts or clear favorites. In fact I wouldn’t be surprised if its 4 new to many of us. This is definitely the random grab bag nature of Bracketology on full display. But that’s what makes March Madness so much fun. You never know where that Cinderella story will start and who will shock you with a big win. And sometimes its all about the matchup. As always the goal is to just have fun and watch what you want. We try and make sure every film is reasonably available, some are a little harder to find than others and not everyone has the right streaming services so if you need help finding any of the films ask and help might be right around the corner. It will. I have the movies. Just ask. You can vote in this round until 12 noon EST Mar 25th (or when I get to it) Next Week! 6. Roger Corman vs. 14. Cloverfield +1 4. Ladies Night vs. 5. The Enemies of Horror Spreadsheet Letterboxd List
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I read a lot of Michael Crichton in sixth grade and I remember being very disappointed with the Sphere movie adaptation. Time to watch it again!
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Samfucius posted:I read a lot of Michael Crichton in sixth grade and I remember being very disappointed with the Sphere movie adaptation. Time to watch it again! Yeah, it was way too slick and not trippy enough. And there wasn't much of a feeling of oppressive dread at being stuck underwater so far away from rescue. Just kinda hollow. But who knows - I haven't seen it in over a quarter of a century (!), so maybe it will be a different experience now. Haven't seen Beneath, but that one may have a leg up just for not being a quarter-century-long wet fart, in my eyes. On the flip side, I was just super disappointed with The Dead Don't Die. Like, it wasn't as clever as Jarmusch thought and not altogether all that insightful or funny. Again, just kinda hollow. As before, I've also have never seen Older Than America, but it'll have the leg up just by being a fresh watch with no expectations or bad memories attached. Odd that the 2 films I'd seen before this week both managed to be disappointments. May make it easy to just vote AGAINST them without bothering to see the competition, if I get too busy this week.
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Class3KillStorm posted:On the flip side, I was just super disappointed with The Dead Don't Die. Like, it wasn't as clever as Jarmusch thought and not altogether all that insightful or funny. I agree with this entirely, and it's a death sentence for a movie like this. It just ends up feeling like a smug inside joke at the audience's literal expense
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Upon rewatch, it's abundantly clear that Sphere fails to really hold together well. It has some serious flaws -- the script is almost aggressively stupid sometimes, the visuals are lacking, the action isn't well-shot, and the tension is too often broken up by overlong editing. There is some definite good stuff in it: the psychological fears of being trapped with people you can't trust, the oppressive sense of the underwater environment, and rather quality acting despite the writing. Unfortunately the good comes off all the worse contrasted with the really bad parts, and I think it makes the final product hard to enjoy. It's really hard to take it seriously when the bad parts are just so bad. Still, it makes me think of the better movie it could be, and the moments that work really worked for me. Beneath has its sights set far lower, though that's not to say it isn't trying hard. It's just a lot more straightforward. The characters are thin, the story just kind of advances as it needs with awkward exposition, and I'd say that it, too, doesn't portray action very well. However, it kind of exceeded my low expectations due to at least one interesting choice (the monster really only claims one victim outright, and the true villain turns out to be humans). I did like the 'Lifeboat' aspect and the ways it is something of a metaphor for the way relationships change in the period just beyond high school. I found it decently entertaining. It's not a slam-dunk vote for me, but I lean toward Sphere not because it's my own team but because the psychological sci-fi encounter with the unknown is more to my taste. Beneath is decent at what it's doing, it's just that I'm less interested in what it is doing. Other side I'm not sure which way yet, but I'm pretty sure Older Than America is going to get my vote, much as I like Jarmusch.
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I thought Sphere was fine. Chalk that up maybe to low expectations both from all the reviews that call it disappointing or that I generally have a low opinion of sci fi so the "dumb but thinks its smart" criticism didn't feel out of the ordinary to me. So like a generic mainstream blockbuster with a great cast and a good unsettling setting but a whatever plot was fine to me. Its probably too long but that didn't really bother me. Its not great or anything. But I thought it was fine. Beneath isn't really good. Its probably bad. But I felt like I got a real Roger Corman B film vibe from it. Not a parody or "intentionally bad" film or anything, just like a film that knows its a cheap B film that isn't gonna be good so it just has fun being what it is. The fish is hilarious and 100% felt like a Corman prop to me and while the cast of characters are incredibly unlikable it feels like they're intentionally so in order to make you justified when you laugh when the fish is a dick to them. I dunno. Its definitely not a good film but I kind of had fun with it and I think a lot of the fun and funny parts were intentionally so. Fessenden feels like he manages to walk a line of earnestness, meanness, and wink at what he's making and while its not a total success (and it was rarely so with Corman either) I kind of had fun with it. So its kind of close to me but I think between the run time and some of the laughs I got from Beneath I'm giving it my vote. Turn your bad horror film's ending into Titanic and I'll laugh. STAC Goat fucked around with this message at 04:59 on Mar 23, 2024 |
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I voted for Sphere because I'm a Crichton kid and so I'd like to see more from that team. Beneath is fun too though, I fully support creature features with unusual monsters and I wish we got more of them.
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Didn't get a chance to watch anything this week, but I'm gonna throw a couple of votes out there (hopefully not skewing things too bad at the end). Ended up voting for Sphere, less because of my vague, hazy memories of that film, and more for my solid affection for other films on it that could come into play later (namely Arachnophobia and Congo, if I'm being honest). I liked Fessenden's Wendigo, and I wish more solo directors were doing well here, but I just don't know the rest of those titles, which makes me inclined to vote for what I know over what I don't. Also voted against The Dead Don't Die, but that was also mainly because I know that mbd's team has Blood Quantum in its back pocket, which is a solid enough reason to vote for them. (And because TDDD wasn't very good.)
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  Its a close one but Barry Levinson’s Sphere beats out Larry Fessenden’s Beneath and Fessenden’s brief low awaited debut in Bracketology is called short. At least until he pops up in a random movie which should take like a month tops. But Kangra’s Crate of Chricton Fright Freight advances as does mod’s Older Than America, defending its HalloweeNIT acquired #1 seed with a decisive victory over Jim Jarmusch’s uneven comedy The Dead Don’t Die. Kangra’s Undying Love had a decent run out of the qualifiers but it ends here. Which means its time for the second round of Elvira’s Dungeon. 4. (Goat’s Ladies Night) Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman vs. 5. (Goat’s Enemies of Horror) Amy Seimetz’s Sun Don’t Shine  Its my two favorite teams up against each other in the second round. Whoops. Its also a double feature of ladies and… not quite horror. But it seems like those should cancel out each other. Emerald Fennell sounds like she’s got kind of polarizing lately and I’ve seen some hot takes on her films, but I actually haven’t gotten to either of them yet so this will be my first impression. Promising Young Women had enough buzz and positivity around it to grab a slot on my team unseen but will it hold up to a differing vibe around the director? Amy Seimetz is a much less known name even if she’s been in over 50 films including a couple of our Bracketology forms from Ti West and Adam Wingard. She’s deep into that world of filmmakers (a term I’ve heard her say she feels best describes herself over “director”, “actor”, or “writer”). And Sun Don’t Shine is a unique film that I’m betting very few if any of you have watched. I’m excited to expose it to the Bracketology audience and see what people thing. And hey, one of my teams will have to win this time. Promising Young Woman is available for streaming on Fubo, Peacock, and USA. Sun Don’t Shine is available for streaming on Fandor, Kanopy, MUBI, OVID, and Roku. 6. Roger Corman’s The Wasp Woman vs. 14. (Sam’s Cloverfield +1) Julius Onah’s The Cloverfield Paradox  Corman picked up his first win in a couple of years last round and now looks to climb his record into .500 with a fitting if not ideal film. See Corman loved to film a movie and then take the remaining budget and crank out a second film quick and dirty. The Wasp Woman might be one of the most famous of those so its fitting its the film trying to pick up things for Corman. And its not a hated film or anything. Reviews are mixed but Corman has a way with these B films. Cloverfield Paradox is maybe also kind of a modern B film? I mean it was released on Netflix. But its a fairly big budget and slick “sequel” to the previous well regarded Cloverfield movies. Its not quite as well regarded but its not without its positives and may actually benefit more from being judged as a stand alone film. Who knows? No real frontrunner in this one so seems like it could go either way. March Madness, baby! Sequel Alert: The Cloverfield Paradox is the third Cloverfield film, although this is more of an anthology series than a true franchise. There ARE links back to the previous films so its not entirely removed but its about 99% a stand alone story that won’t need previous information to get. So your call. The Wasp Woman is available for streaming on Amazon Prime, Crackle, Cultpix, DistroTV, Fandor, fuboTV, Full Moon, Kanopy, Plex, Popcornflix, Public Domain Movies, Shout! Factory TV, Roku, Tubi, AND FlixFling, The Cloverfield Paradox is available for streaming on Netflix. That’s our week. Two open matchups with a mix of well known films and deeper cuts. But more movies. And hopefully they’re fun. Can’t love on just basketball. As always the goal is to just have fun and watch what you want. We try and make sure every film is reasonably available, some are a little harder to find than others and not everyone has the right streaming services so if you need help finding any of the films ask and help might be right around the corner. It will. I have the movies. Just ask. You can vote in this round until 12 noon EST Apr 1st (or when I get to it) Next Week! 1. Older Than America vs. 8. A Crate of Crichton Fright Freight 10. NYC Grime Connection vs. 15. M. Night Shyamalan Spreadsheet Letterboxd List STAC Goat fucked around with this message at 17:06 on Mar 25, 2024 |
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Ohhh I definitely am looking forward to The Wasp Woman. How can you go wrong?
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Basebf555 posted:Ohhh I definitely am looking forward to The Wasp Woman. How can you go wrong? The traditional way would be to have 2 minutes of cool wasp woman and an hour of men in suits smoking pipes in a drawing room and wondering aloud how a woman can be a wasp
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I'm definitely looking forward to Wasp Woman as the palate cleanser between my two films. But I like me some goofy 50s sci fi "dudes standing around in a lab talking about the monster" movies.
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Yea I enjoy the pipe smoking and the drawing rooms.
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Hmmmm so I guess the effects budget for Wasp Woman was like $10(adjusted for inflation, the actual 1959 number was probably like a dollar). Still enjoyed it.
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The Wasp Woman > The Cloverfield Paradox is an easy pick for me. Promising Young Woman vs. Sun Don’t Shine is a real toss up. I thought both were really good.
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Its Saturday and I'm on time for once. Pure dumb luck. I'm just sitting here not doing writeups when I remembered. But I have time and you have time to watch movies and vote. Just under 48 hours. And then onto another week as always. You can vote in this round until 12 noon EST Apr 1st (or when I get to it) Next Week! 1. Older Than America vs. 8. A Crate of Crichton Fright Freight 10. NYC Grime Connection vs. 15. M. Night Shyamalan
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Wasp Woman easily gets my vote over Cloverfield Paradox. Maybe two of the characters in Cloverfield Paradox felt remotely like real people instead of props for the set-pieces. Sun Don't Shine was interesting, but really hinged on caring about the characters more than their situation. And I didn't. Promising Young Woman offered both, and I cared about both in that film. So that's the one getting my vote in that match.
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I find Promising Young Woman to be somewhat compelling (especially visually), but I think the story feels pretty thin and it's a facile treatment of the issues. Sun Don't Shine is way more subtle, and arguably is not as focused thematically. It's also pretty light on horror, but I liked it well enough to vote for it. Cloverfield Paradox has a germ of a decent story, with the idea of dealing with parallel-universe versions of people you aren't sure you can trust, while trapped in a situation where you have to rely on them*. Yet it's larded down with extraneous subplots, barely manages to develop tension, and ultimately comes off as dumb without being fun. Wasp Woman, in contrast is just barely competent as a movie. It has all the elements there, and nothing is really wrong with it; it's just low-effort. It's a barely-passing C-grade paper of a movie. Kind of a split decision for me, but Wasp Woman annoyed me less. *This year's seemingly overlooked ISS, while not about parallel universes, is a much better exploration of this idea.
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Went on vacation, came back with the plague. Tried to make it through these, and only made it halfway through Promising Young Woman. Haven't even finished it yet. It's been flipping amazingly darkdarkdark and moody so far. Really enjoyed what I saw and want to finish it, but I'm still on my goddamn rear end from this crud. Head colds still exist, I guess, and they still suck butt.
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  A surprise upset (?) as Sun Don’t Shine takes down Promising Young Woman! Caught me by surprise as I was sure Sun Don’t Shine would be the film I was just glad some people watched and was curious to see how they felt about. But people apparently felt good enough about it to give it the win, or perhaps the vibe turning against Emerald Farrrell plays a factor? I don’t know. But it means my heavyweight favorite team Ladies Night goes down in the second round and my underdog favorite team Enemies of Horror advances to the Sweet Sixteen for the first time. And it will be joined by Roger Corman who dominates his matchup with Wasp Woman over Cloverfield Paradox. Maybe not a surprise but a huge win for Corman as he manages to advance further into the tournament than he ever has with one of his B films. That’s the end of the road for Cloverfield+1 as well as maybe the end of its theme. But there’s still much more to come. But for now lets wrap up Elvira’s Dungeon and decide our next two Sweet Sixteen participants. 1. (mbd’s Older Than America) Jeff Barnaby’s Blood Quantum vs. 8. (Kangra’s A Crate of Crichton Fright Freight) Frank Marshall’s Arachnophobia  A bunch of people said they voted for Older Than America in hopes of drawing Blood Quantum… and the RnG listened. After advancing past the first round with its namesake movie Kangra’s HalloweeNIT winner now looks to make the Sweet Sixteen with its heralded big gun Up against it is a movie that I don’t think I’d call a cult classic since its so mainstream but one that feels like its got a lot of love from people’s youth. The Spielberg produced Arachnophobia plays with horror and comedy in a way that isn’t always popular in here but can be a crowd pleaser. But will be that good enough to beat the modern actual cult classic in Blood Quantum? Or will the zombie apocalypse claim another victim (while teaching a lesson)? Blood Quantum is available for streaming on AMC+, DirectTV, Hoopla, and Shudder. Arachnophobia is out there and available upon request. 10. (Weapon X’s NYC Grime Connection) Frank Henenlotter’s Basket Case vs. 15. M. Night Shyamalan’s Glass  This might be a tough draw for Shyamalan as he’s on the best run of his Bracketology career racking up two wins to make it from the Play in. But now he not only draws one of his more polarizing later films and a sequel that many found unnecessary or dated but he does it against Basket Case. Henenlotter’s cult classic is a huge hit around these parts so it feels like its got this one in the bag over Night’s iffy super hero deconstruction. And while I may object to the whole “NYC Grime” thing and its implications even I admit Basket Case captures something amongst its weirdness and gore. But hey we get Bruce Willis and Samuel L Jackson making their second appearances in Bracketology this year. That’s fun. And who knows? Maybe Night will have one more big twist up his sleeve? Stranger things have happened. Sequel Alert: Glass is the third of M. Night’s “Eastrail 177” super hero trilogy of Unbreakable and Split. While some of these sequels work as stand alone and some are manageable with a base knowledge I think this is one that really does require having seen the first two films. I’m just not sure this film works at all without that basis. Its very much the culmination of the previous two films so for as much as it does or doesn’t work I think you really do need it all. Basket Case is available for streaming on ARROW, Darkmatter, Fandor, Kanopy, Midnight Pulp, Screambox, Shudder, and Tubi. Glass is available for streaming on Fubo and FXNow. That’s our week. Maybe a light one as we don’t have much in the way of deep cuts here but rather a couple of mainstream films and a couple of popular cult classics. Could be an easy week for people’s watching and voting and it comes as next week will be a much needed Spring Break for me. So no new movies next week but a chance to maybe catch up with what you missed or have neglected. Or just to star at the solar eclipse and get freaked out by it while listening to Black Hole Sun. I dunno. You dod you. As always the goal is to just have fun and watch what you want. We try and make sure every film is reasonably available, some are a little harder to find than others and not everyone has the right streaming services so if you need help finding any of the films ask and help might be right around the corner. It will. I have the movies. Just ask. You can vote in this round until 12 noon EST Apr 8th (or when I get to it) Next Week! Spring Break! Spreadsheet Letterboxd List
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