i wouldnt worry about it too much clemenza, Drag Me To Hell is at best intermittently scary, much more in the evil dead 2 camp of horror comedies
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 17 May 2012 23:15 (twelve years ago) link
i think there's something on my computer screen, hold on
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_q9gTdYDKI3U/TRoQHjgjuoI/AAAAAAAADw0/-gSWO-VTikQ/s1600/tingler.jpg
― game of crones (La Lechera), Thursday, 17 May 2012 23:17 (twelve years ago) link
xp I thought you were going somewhere else for awhile?
Voted for Drag Me to Hell. Loved it. Still love it.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Thursday, 17 May 2012 23:17 (twelve years ago) link
Didn't vote for this, but you gotta give it up to Raimi for that ending. Also, the lead actress was perfectly cast: she's fresh-faced enough to have stepped out of Where the Boys Are and then, well, dragged through hell.
― The Thnig, Thursday, 17 May 2012 23:19 (twelve years ago) link
Wished I'd seen Drag Me To Hell in the theater. 'Twouldv'e been fun, whatwith the pure physicality, esp. the car lot confrontation scene, and the whole general "shock" sound design
― I serve at the pleasure of Dr. Dre and a team of Sorbonne scientists. (R Baez), Thursday, 17 May 2012 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
drag me to hell was lots of fun but never seriously considered it. as for night of the demon, it was in my top 10 and if it wasn't for the, much-derided everywhere, reveal and also dana andrews then i think it would be a different film right up there in this. the tornado scene is all-time.
― second only to popcorn (or something), Thursday, 17 May 2012 23:22 (twelve years ago) link
iirc the ending was followed by the title, right? If I'm not imagining it, man that was perfect.
― I serve at the pleasure of Dr. Dre and a team of Sorbonne scientists. (R Baez), Thursday, 17 May 2012 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
drag me to hell was lots of fun but never seriously considered it.
yep. it's PG-13 and shows it. the car lot sequence is probably the best. the ending seemed pretty obvious imho.
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 May 2012 23:25 (twelve years ago) link
Drag has that right-at-your-face gibbering horror I mentioned re: Creepshow that so few filmmakers try to pull off for fear of looking dorky. Best example of this, maybe EVER, is in the otherwise mediocre Pet Sematary, where the sister with spinal meningitis rushes the camera. Oh god.
― The Thnig, Thursday, 17 May 2012 23:25 (twelve years ago) link
xp
Best example of this, maybe EVER, is in the otherwise mediocre Pet Sematary, where the sister with spinal meningitis rushes the camera. Oh god.
Awesome.
― I serve at the pleasure of Dr. Dre and a team of Sorbonne scientists. (R Baez), Thursday, 17 May 2012 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
I think the best example of that is actually Inland Empire.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 17 May 2012 23:30 (twelve years ago) link
some folks may overrate drag me to hell b/c it came right after the indisputably shitty spiderman 3 and folks be like, "oh, raimi can still make OK films!"
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Thursday, 17 May 2012 23:33 (twelve years ago) link
haven't really cared about Raimi since Evil Dead 2 tbh. he's not a bad director, but he isn't great either. his films are always passable (I haven't seen s3)
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 May 2012 23:36 (twelve years ago) link
I like A Simple Plan every time it turns up on TV.
― clemenza, Thursday, 17 May 2012 23:37 (twelve years ago) link
I know the demon in Demon was added against Tourneur's wishes, but, I dunno, I kind of like it there. Gives it a nice A-plus B-movie feel.
― The Thnig, Thursday, 17 May 2012 23:38 (twelve years ago) link
A Simple Plan is fantastic. If you respect yourself and your time, never ever see Spider-Man 3.
― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 17 May 2012 23:39 (twelve years ago) link
Gratuitous dancing scenes will always earn my respect.
― I serve at the pleasure of Dr. Dre and a team of Sorbonne scientists. (R Baez), Thursday, 17 May 2012 23:41 (twelve years ago) link
For, you know, super-fans:
http://www.amazon.com/Beating-Devil-Making-Night-Demon/dp/095319261X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1337298060&sr=8-1
― The Thnig, Thursday, 17 May 2012 23:41 (twelve years ago) link
I don't get this image--I thought it was the same film:
http://img.getglue.com/movies/curse_of_demon_night_of_demon/jacques_tourneur/normal.jpg
― clemenza, Thursday, 17 May 2012 23:43 (twelve years ago) link
I gave Drag Me To Hell a go but it seemed to be descending into a pretty stock racist story about Roma people so i stopped. I might have been wrong but the whole tone struck me as really unpleasant.
― Just like you, except hot (ShariVari), Thursday, 17 May 2012 23:46 (twelve years ago) link
yeah it all centers around that more or less
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 17 May 2012 23:46 (twelve years ago) link
I don't get this image--I thought it was the same film
Explained here.
― I serve at the pleasure of Dr. Dre and a team of Sorbonne scientists. (R Baez), Thursday, 17 May 2012 23:48 (twelve years ago) link
That's really OTM and I can't defend that aspect of theories at all.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Thursday, 17 May 2012 23:53 (twelve years ago) link
(xpost) Thanks--it's been a while, so I'm not entirely sure which one I voted for.
― clemenza, Thursday, 17 May 2012 23:54 (twelve years ago) link
"theories" should be "this movie." Autocorrect!
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Friday, 18 May 2012 00:02 (twelve years ago) link
I love that those films are tied, as Raimi's is clearly in debt to "Demon."
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 18 May 2012 00:05 (twelve years ago) link
nah it's an embarrassment of a devil. it almost looks embarrassed for itslef, you want to give it a hug and say "chin up, i've prob seen worse elsewhere, sometime".
― second only to popcorn (or something), Friday, 18 May 2012 00:11 (twelve years ago) link
night of the demon slipped off my ballot because I haven't seen it in ages, feels like it shoulda been higher but idk
also, love the demon
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-noBwie-oKn0/T3sae1FZuiI/AAAAAAAACX0/M3n1pi5jLI4/s1600/Demon+smoke.jpg
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Friday, 18 May 2012 00:15 (twelve years ago) link
"Oh HENRY you're so SICK, you're so SICK you'd slice a DICK!"
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5321/7217117614_d71df94477_o.jpg
71. HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLERJohn McNaughton, USA, 1986(272 points, 10 votes)
[I remember the total absence of score or music of any kind during the scenes of brutality in Henry.. being rather jarring. It was just so blunt. You're dead-on about the videotaping scene (especially when Otis molests the wife's corpse after he's already broken her neck). Awfu, awful, awful.― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, April 7, 2005 4:21 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Friday, 18 May 2012 00:18 (twelve years ago) link
One of the most disturbing movies I've ever seen, and have never felt the need to see it again. That videotape scene is next-level fucked-upness. Needless to say, it made my ballot.
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Friday, 18 May 2012 00:22 (twelve years ago) link
Ugh, yes. Saw it again recently. Just as bleak and awful as I'd remembered. Totally voted for it.
― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 18 May 2012 00:29 (twelve years ago) link
went with angst instead of henry on my ballot, it is a classic tho.
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Friday, 18 May 2012 00:34 (twelve years ago) link
i don't ever need to see this movie, do i?
― game of crones (La Lechera), Friday, 18 May 2012 00:34 (twelve years ago) link
I remember it as very unpleasant, but not in a way that I found at all artful. I was trying to think of a better word than "artful" to differentiate it from some equally unpleasant films I voted for--sounds pretentious--but I couldn't come up with anything.
― clemenza, Friday, 18 May 2012 00:35 (twelve years ago) link
didnt vote for it but it totally deserves its spot here
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Friday, 18 May 2012 00:39 (twelve years ago) link
Like, I'm just assuming here, but it's probably the most accurate depiction of a serial killer you're likely to see. No frills, no excessive prurience, just a blunt depiction of the boring days and nights of a psychopath, punctuated by random murders that generally seem motivated by the same forethought most of us utilize in buying a pack of gum. It's...I dunno, psychologically interesting in the way that a documentary about anyone existing on the fringe. But, like I say, bleak bleak bleak. If that doesn't sound like your cup of tea, avoid.
― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 18 May 2012 00:45 (twelve years ago) link
I probably would've rhapsodized about this 10 years ago. Now it seems kind of... unnecessary, maybe? Need to watch it again. Regardless, can't argue with it being on the list.
― The Thnig, Friday, 18 May 2012 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
I wouldn't say the movie is in any way unnecessary, but I would definitely say it's unnecessary for anyone not completely on board to ever watch it.
― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 18 May 2012 00:49 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah I mean I can support it being on the list, and I like the idea of watching boring scenes of a serial killer buying Kit Kats and Pepsi, but actually watching it does not seem to be on my list of things to do.
― game of crones (La Lechera), Friday, 18 May 2012 00:52 (twelve years ago) link
Esp interested after reading that article in the NYT about psychopaths though...
I still argue that The Thing can totally be viewed as a film about an alien trying to survive and get offworld in the only way it knows how while dickhole humans do everything they can to prevent that happening.
check this fun thing: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/
― Sébastien, Friday, 18 May 2012 00:57 (twelve years ago) link
I just don't think David Lynch makes horror movies; i think he makes movies about horror, that aren't particularly scary/horrific. His movies seem more like absurd or abstract melodramas imo
― sarahell, Friday, 18 May 2012 01:11 (twelve years ago) link
i try to give out OTMs sparingly these days but this ^ is really OTM to me
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Friday, 18 May 2012 01:23 (twelve years ago) link
Like, I'm just assuming here, but it's probably the most accurate depiction of a serial killer you're likely to see.
part of the reason I went with angst over henry is that they're both after similar ideals, but angst takes it even further. while henry's an efficient killing machine, the guy in angst is a clumsy bag of nerves who can barely finish off his victims. angst's camerawork is a bit more stylized than henry's, but it has less of a dramatic arc so it feels more lifelike (and tho a lot of folks talk about how much like a documentary henry is, there's definitely an artful storyline at work). it was also made 3 years earlier than henry, in 1983. if somebody told me it came out last year I'd believe it.
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Friday, 18 May 2012 01:34 (twelve years ago) link
yeah all this otm except aren't particularly scary/horrific
the last time I actually felt frightened in a movie theater was while watching inland empire, obv the winkies scene is mulholland dr is alltime jump out yr seat, bob in tp:fwwm is terrifying, eraserhead well you catch my drift
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Friday, 18 May 2012 01:52 (twelve years ago) link
obv different people are scared by different things. those things did not frighten me in the least. i thought eraserhead was cool/funny - an absurdist 50s kitchen sink drama a la Loneliness of the LD Runner
― sarahell, Friday, 18 May 2012 01:54 (twelve years ago) link
i will admit to inland empire having some total terror moments, i just dont think anything else he has done works the same way.
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Friday, 18 May 2012 01:56 (twelve years ago) link
ditto. I've never watched it again but it is really etched in my mind. probably the single-most realistic and thus genuinely horrifying depiction of a serial killer on film.
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 18 May 2012 01:57 (twelve years ago) link
it's true that diff ppl are scared by diff things, but I'd say the vast majority of folks are creeped out by lynch's films. he's very talented at putting nerves on edge.
also if eraserhead reminded you of a kitchen sink drama remind me to stay out of yr kitchen
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Friday, 18 May 2012 01:58 (twelve years ago) link
i'm referring to the genre!
― sarahell, Friday, 18 May 2012 02:00 (twelve years ago) link