letterboxd, the vexing and sometimes OK film logging website

Feed clogged up with ppl logging fucking Wandavision, hope you include TV ppl are happy :(

man there's a lot of stuff that's not even vaguely edge-case-y:
https://letterboxd.com/eddiebergman/list/tv-shows-that-are-on-letterboxd-for-some/

they should definitely have the option to "hide" anything that's regular serial television!

every episode of Black Mirror is on there? individually? (with fan art for posters?!) look out if anyone ever tells them about Twilight Zone or Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

Letterboxd Top 100 Documentary Miniseries

Letterboxd 50 Anime Miniseries

The Letterboxd Top 100 TV Narrative Miniseries, based on the average weighted rating of all Letterboxd users, excluding documentaries, and cutting everything with under 250 views logged

if the New York Post's youtube dis track about the Pussy Posse's improvised and suppressed movie Don's Plum is cinema, why not include every single "here's what's WRONG with The Last Jedi (PS it's women)" video

https://boxd.it/1Isi7p

I recommend nathaxnne's review of Transformers: The Movie, which I read the other day and which is very good.

ok, which ilxor is that

hell yeah

I enjoyed nathaxnne's takedown of richard stanley

very much appreciate the change from "no likes" to "no likes yet", let us down easy letterboxd

I've started compiling an 'Acid Horror' film list for my own amusement/reference. Any additional suggestions would be welcome - you'll see the kind of thing I'm after:

https://letterboxd.com/wardfowler/list/acid-horror/

Neat list!

Hausu feels like it should fit. I'm not well versed in psych-horror but House seems kind of ultimate

https://letterboxd.com/film/house/

xpost!

God Told Me To? Death Bed? Hausu? Feel like I need a bigger sample size to know what fits and what don't.

So clearly Hausu, then.

The Virgin Sacrifice (J.X. Williams)

would Alucarda count?

Don't know how strictly you're hewing to that particular early-to-mid-'70s era but Possession (1981), perhaps?

If we're allowing more modern, Mandy and Black Rainbow seem like good ones. Possessor from last year has a similar vibe.

Thank you for all your suggestion - I will update! Other contenders: El Topo (though that could fit on an Acid Western list), I Drink Your Blood. I don't especially want to set limits, but I guess I'm particularly looking for films where the overall vibe is that the cast and crew could well have been tripping while they made it.

It's still sitting in my ever-growing stack of unwatched movies but Simon King of the Witches seems like a contender:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fax1uhZxvEA

Do you have a copy of Nightmare USA, Ward? I'm sure that's filled to the brim with what you're looking for.

Thanks OL, I do indeed. Still waiting on the second volume!

A Field In England? Or is that aping the aesthetic too self-consciously?

there's only one scene that really qualifies but it's so good i gotta recommend house on sorority row for this list

I think Field in England is more folk-horror-revivalism, tho obviously there is crossover here - Blood on Satan's Claw in particular has some fairly trippy stuff near the end, though that feels more like the work of canny exploitation opportunists rather than mind-expanding tru believers.

Another one - Last House on Dead End Street

Field in England is Mushroom Horror obv.

Blue Sunshine! Even though it's kind of lousy imo

it really is lol

I recommend nathaxnne's review of Transformers: The Movie, which I read the other day and which is very good.

― Stefan Twerkelle (Old Lunch), Thursday, March 11, 2021 9:13 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

wow

As to Ward's query, perhaps these would qualify:

Messiah of Evil (1973)
A Name for Evil (1973
Eden and After (France, 1970)

Jean Rollin's entire oeuvre..?

xp to davey:
It Follows?
Happiness of the Katakuris?

hmm, It Follows is paranoid as heck but IDK if it's has the psychedelia quotient. Haven't seen Happiness of the Kakutanis but that looks like a fit. That one's going on the watch list. I'm wracking my brain for more titles but coming up blank. I'll ask Jasmine, she's more of a horror buff.

You've got a couple of Rollins' in there already but I'd definitely recommend The Iron Rose. What else are you gonna do after imbibing quantities than hang around a graveyard?

Also Luigi Bazzoni's Footprints on the Moon (Le Orme), 1978

altered states (and probably lair of the white worm too, though i haven't seen it)

Probably worth scouring 366 Weird Movies for nominees.

Lair of the White Worm is definitely trippy but also intentionally goofy and camped-up. I watched it not that long ago, don't remember most of it, and yet feel like I'd enjoy watching it again.

just saw a comedy so brilliant and ahead of its time i was moved to finally write more than a one-liner in a letterb*xd review.

pls like and subscribe.

https://letterboxd.com/daveyshindig/film/mystery-team/

h8 to self-promote but i think this movie broke my brain, it was on another level

i'm sincerely confused about whether you liked it or not

perfect ;p

(i did not)

fr i find it a little depressing to see how many people give 4- and 5-star ratings to so many movies that are objectively terrible

Eh, ratings are personal. There are lots of "objectively terrible" movies I will give high ratings because they're pinnacles of the form!

fair enough. i think some things are just bad period even if plenty of people like them. but my roommate likes that movie and i don't hold it against him

Spoken like a true ilxor

thank u silby, i like that ilk

I went through the two "last x movies" threads, copied everything I posted there since 2012--~1,000 films (there are duplicates)--and I'm making an effort to log them onto Letterboxd. As I think some people said above, I don't like the rating system. I have to go up or down on all the things I rated 6.5 or 7.5 on ILX, both very common ratings for me. Anyway, hope to have them logged in about two weeks. Then I'll start on the films I saw in the first 50 years of my life and never saw again.

Now that’s a retirement activity if I ever heard one!

Retirement + pandemic + move to small, isolated town: basically, I'm going crazy.