i like The Descent and voted for it but woah after it didn't make the bottom half of the list i kind of assumed it wouldn't get that high
― waggin the cock and flow tit (some dude), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
Has anyone seen Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist?
Yeah. The worst I can say about it is that it's kinda plodding and not terribly concerned with being a horror film.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
Never seen all of "Freaks" and don't know if I ever will.
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:36 (eleven years ago) link
I hope everyone repping for exorcist II realizes that anyone who watches the film will never trust anything you say ever again
Most OTM statement in this thread.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
Not if you rep it to a fan of films maudits
― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
I liked The Descent in spite of the stupid cave monster bits because it was girls in a cave, and one of those girls was Nora-Jane Noone and her fantastic eyebrows. I feel like some of you are missing the point with that movie.
― game of crones (La Lechera), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
Freaks is so classic that people should hang stills of it in their house instead of American Gothic.
― The Thnig, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
Hostel 2 is better than hostel 1, imo.
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
only exorcist film i even half like after the first is the third, which isn't great, but does have its moments (plus at least a quarter-hour's worth of brad dourif going full weirdo)
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
Hopkins recalls, "I read the script and - boom - I knew intuitively how to play him. There were two, maybe three voices that I heard. I thought of Katharine Hepburn, Truman Capote and Hal.
― judas, a homo (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, May 22, 2012 12:32 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is crazy, never had seen this quote before but makes instant total sense
― waggin the cock and flow tit (some dude), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:39 (eleven years ago) link
I always wondered what the limbless man holding a knife in his teeth at the end of Freaks was going to actually do with it.
― A++++++ would deal with again (Matt #2), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:39 (eleven years ago) link
Freaks!! Love it.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
I really don't get all the hate for the shift in the descent
For me, it can be largely distilled into: was super effective and legit scary for a stretch, then morphed into a fairly boilerplate '(wo)man v. monsters' flick. It ain't hate by any means, just mild disappointment.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:41 (eleven years ago) link
The "one of us" scene is so great because we KNOW the freaks are the good guys... and yet you have to feel the villain lady's horror that she could somehow become one of them.
― The Thnig, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:41 (eleven years ago) link
Freaks' signature gabba-gabba scene is phenomenal; I can't remember a whole lot from the build-up.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:41 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.ciakhollywood.com/biografie/tbrowning/sulsetdifreaks.jpg
― A++++++ would deal with again (Matt #2), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:42 (eleven years ago) link
It also made room in the public imagination for freaky carnival ladies in movies like Berserk! and The Jerk and a bunch of others, I'm sure.
― game of crones (La Lechera), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:43 (eleven years ago) link
I know this is a ship that's long since sailed, and can't remember who the writer was, but I remember reading something about Freaks in which it's pointed out that some of the people in the film could not possibly have comprehended the idea that they were even IN a film, and what that meant in terms of the level of exploitation involved. The whole thing just kinda makes me uncomfortable.
OTOH, this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=25nl9-Z-P6U#t=66s
(ff to 1:06 if it doesn't start there)
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:43 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25nl9-Z-P6U#t=66s
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:44 (eleven years ago) link
Hopkins' voice sounds nothing like Hal or Hepburn mind, although maybe a little like Capote.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:44 (eleven years ago) link
I don't either & will rep for it full-stop (tho I forgot to vote for it) as one of the best of 00s.
― "horror shirt" (Pillbox), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:44 (eleven years ago) link
If you want to see a slimy grindhouse remake of Freaks, check out She-Freak (1967).
― The Thnig, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:45 (eleven years ago) link
(plus at least a quarter-hour's worth of brad dourif going full weirdo)
SOLD.
― Hierophantiasis (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:45 (eleven years ago) link
only exorcist film i even half like after the first is the third,
First and third are the only ones I'll rep for. Third really only suffers in comparison to the first, imo, which is praise via fairly faint damnation. I liked it enough to vote for it (although that looks to be a wasted vote at this point).
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
freaks isn't a favorite of mine, but damn it's got moments. prince randian lighting a cigarette is one of the most casually astonishing things i've ever seen on film.
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
had Freaks 18th. yes, there is some kind of exploitation going on.
Hopkins' attitude is what's Hepburnish, tho maybe his reading her lines from Long Day's Journey wd be enlightening.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:47 (eleven years ago) link
lol @ one of PUS
― "horror shirt" (Pillbox), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:47 (eleven years ago) link
Powell provided the voice of the father btw.
Powell played the father. That's him in the home movies torturing little Mark.
Wow! Had no clue that Bob Clark did the remarkable She Man, highly recommended on an indispensable SWV disc with the equally remarkable Sins of Rachel. Just be careful for butchered copies if you torrent it.
Shaking damn head at love for The Descent. Anyone who voted for this hateful little film, esp. the number oner (!), should be forced to sit through the 2008 remake of The Women three times in a row.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:49 (eleven years ago) link
xp mm Hepburns' attitude yes i see that.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:52 (eleven years ago) link
The Haunting = way too low. It was my #2. (One of all-time best scores too, which has never been released in any format. The tapes are supposedly lost).
Yay Black Christmas! My #20. The phone calls are straight up virtuoso shit. I love how this movie overturns the Last Girl convention before the Last Girl even BECAME a convention.
SOTL I did not vote for b/c of genre quibbling. But upthread when 7e7e7 placed, I think I mentioned the kinship between Howard Shore's music in the two films. Yesterday I managed to find a 60 minute promo of his 7 score and I can now affirm whole-heartedly that its the blackest, deepest, most unremittingly malevolent thing anyone has ever composed in any genre.
― Hierophantiasis (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:52 (eleven years ago) link
Wow, not a single film has received two first-place votes yet. Some serious bunching coming up soon.
― The Thnig, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:54 (eleven years ago) link
i often have reservations of one sort or another about films that make use of mentally disabled actors: freaks, jodorowsky's santa sangre (which i should have voted for, goddam it), lars von trier's the kingdom and especially crispin glover's what is it?
then again, i suppose they have as much right to be in a movie as anyone, and who's to say that they don't "really understand" what's going on? seems presumptuous.
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:54 (eleven years ago) link
I really need to see What Is It?
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:56 (eleven years ago) link
tbf I don't think anyone understood what was going on in What is It?
― "horror shirt" (Pillbox), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:57 (eleven years ago) link
― "horror shirt" (Pillbox), Tuesday, May 22, 2012 1:47 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
LOL LOL
― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
You're right, I forgot the dad is on screen. And the kid is Powell's son.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:59 (eleven years ago) link
ugh, can't believe I forgot to vote for Freaks. Definitely would have bumped it up a notch or two.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:00 (eleven years ago) link
Hausu is the only thing I watched because of this poll that ended up on my ballot. Kooky and ooky in equal parts.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:01 (eleven years ago) link
xxxp given what neuroscience knows about microcephaly today I think we can safely make some assumptions without disappearing down a philosophical rabbit hole.
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:01 (eleven years ago) link
there's a big difference between the treatment (cinematic treatment that is) of the mentally disabled actors in the kingdom vs. that crispin glover movie.
― sarahell, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:02 (eleven years ago) link
contenderizer, I'd argue that the two actors with Down's Syndrome in The Kingdom were probably among the most gently-handled and sensitively-portrayed performers in Von Trier's filmography.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:02 (eleven years ago) link
"If you ... are thinking ... of seeing ... this film ... alone ... DERN't!"
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7216/7248902344_ae4dda50f6_o.jpg
32. INLAND EMPIREDavid Lynch, USA, 2006(482 points, 14 votes)
what can Lynch really do after Inland Empire? feels like he's kind of exhausted the repertoire with this. feels like something he's been working towards, a condensed, cumulative piece of work.love the hell out of it.― circa1916, Saturday, January 15, 2011 3:24 AM (1 year ago)i think trying to interpret this film is just a headache i don't want or need.― by another name (amateurist), Wednesday, February 24, 2010 1:28 PM (2 years ago)Ok. WTF.WTF.― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, August 14, 2007 6:43 PM (4 years ago)I remember still being on the fence about it immediately after seeing it the first time.― Eric H., Tuesday, August 14, 2007 8:49 PM (4 years ago)I've now re-watched the first ten minutes and, suddenly, IT MAKES SENSE.― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, August 14, 2007 8:50 PM (4 years ago)Well, I wouldn't go that far.― Eric H., Tuesday, August 14, 2007 8:51 PM (4 years ago)David Lynch's "Inland Empire"
i think trying to interpret this film is just a headache i don't want or need.― by another name (amateurist), Wednesday, February 24, 2010 1:28 PM (2 years ago)
Ok. WTF.WTF.― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, August 14, 2007 6:43 PM (4 years ago)
I remember still being on the fence about it immediately after seeing it the first time.― Eric H., Tuesday, August 14, 2007 8:49 PM (4 years ago)
I've now re-watched the first ten minutes and, suddenly, IT MAKES SENSE.― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, August 14, 2007 8:50 PM (4 years ago)
Well, I wouldn't go that far.― Eric H., Tuesday, August 14, 2007 8:51 PM (4 years ago)
David Lynch's "Inland Empire"
― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:05 (eleven years ago) link
oh, I guess The Kingdom will count for this jonner, eh
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Tuesday, May 22, 2012 12:34 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah, I loved the first part. I was an enthusiastic spelunker when I was younger and I suffered from mild claustrophobia. Perfect!
And the transition to cave-dwelling not humans with sonar was great! The plausible lead-up of these spelunkers getting lost somewhere deep in the earth with no orientatation and no hope of finding their way out is the perfect set up for the terror of stumbling into the domain of these undiscovered and unknown monsters.
And what monsters! Some evolutionary offshoot of our acnestors, but totally alien.
I can see nitpicking over sense of smell in a few key moments, but I wasn't thinking about that as I was crawling over the back of my chair.
― He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:07 (eleven years ago) link
i may be a jerk for saying this, but i think LVT is playing a cruel joke with the disabled actors in the kingdom. as he says in every episode, this is a place where we must "take the good ... with the evil." in the kingdom, christian good (as portrayed by the actors with downs syndrome) is simplistic and rather dull. evil, especially as portrayed by EH jaregard, is clever, fascinating and clearly the best thing about the show, the reason we watch.
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
So are we all agreed that Inland Empire is an extended metaphor for expanding consciousness through Transcendental Meditation?
― A++++++ would deal with again (Matt #2), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
yes
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
I confess that I have not yet watched Inland Empire.
― He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
Love inland empire but really happy to see it place this low.
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
well, it's gotta be a metaphor for something
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:12 (eleven years ago) link