Another thumbs-up vote for "Hagazussa"'s imagery and pacing. Interesting comment in the IMDB reviews, thinking it's inspired by a 15th century syphilis outbreak. Explains the mother's death and the daughter's madness pretty well.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Tuesday, 13 August 2019 15:27 (four years ago) link
Eega: A Bollywood-styled sci-fi/horror film in which the hero is reborn as a fly and fights organized crimehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cw-n7VsOAc
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 15 August 2019 14:49 (four years ago) link
Wow, that looks awesome.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Thursday, 15 August 2019 17:52 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B6hjhP83ckfull film here, with subtitles even!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 15 August 2019 18:20 (four years ago) link
Thanks!
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Thursday, 15 August 2019 18:31 (four years ago) link
Started watching this and a big bluebottle keeps landing on the screen. I’m conflicted about killing it.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Thursday, 15 August 2019 21:35 (four years ago) link
is it inspiring a dance number? probably safe to kill if not.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 15 August 2019 21:41 (four years ago) link
It’s hard to tell when a fly is dancing. Also, the lead in this is a creepy stalker.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Thursday, 15 August 2019 21:43 (four years ago) link
135 mins!?
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Thursday, 15 August 2019 21:44 (four years ago) link
The female lead is very good at doing an ‘I’m hiding my amusement’ thing with her mouth.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Thursday, 15 August 2019 21:50 (four years ago) link
https://imgur.com/KZLMtD6
My favourite website. Also, not a horror, unless you consider Incredible Shrinking Man etc. to be horrors. It's fun though.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Thursday, 15 August 2019 23:04 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/KZLMtD6.png
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Thursday, 15 August 2019 23:05 (four years ago) link
Just watched Hagazussa, so good... loved the guttering candle of a narrative, wish there were more 100-minute movies with 10 minutes of dialog. Sensibility is very appealing, like an inversion of all the tedious aspects of modernity, the evidentiality, identity, cleanliness. Just Albrun's consciousness expanding to fill the world, or the woods and mountains breathing her in and out.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 16 August 2019 01:55 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBYKY7NwB5Yhttps://www.blackgate.com/2019/08/13/fantasia-day-4-part-4-mystery-of-the-night/
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 17 August 2019 23:34 (four years ago) link
Ready or Not fucking ruled!
Margot Robbie Samara Weaving is hilarious. Social commentary wise, it's a bit on the 'obvious' side, but it has the feel of a off-brand 80s horror film. I mean obviously it's slicker and mainstream on the outside but it has a scuzzy heart, like a punk who wears a suit jacket with a t shirt and jeans.
― FUCK YOUR POTATO (Neanderthal), Friday, 23 August 2019 01:59 (four years ago) link
Psyched!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 August 2019 02:23 (four years ago) link
In case folk have 2019 library searches, "Luz" just popped up in my library's catalog, as a 2018 release.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Wednesday, 28 August 2019 14:21 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNFAMPDqdVA
black christmas is getting remade! again! but this time it's helmed by sophia takal who directed one of my favorite horror films of the last few years, always shine
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 September 2019 19:34 (four years ago) link
honestly I don't like the look of that at all, and after getting burned by the Pet Sematary remake on the basis of a promising director attachment + cast I refuse to get my hopes up again
― Simon H., Thursday, 5 September 2019 19:35 (four years ago) link
i like the look of it but i like blumhouse garbage
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 September 2019 19:40 (four years ago) link
also i loved the last black christmas remake and i'm enjoying that it's turning into a franchise of remakes at this point lol
AGNES
― FUCK YOUR POTATO (Neanderthal), Thursday, 5 September 2019 19:41 (four years ago) link
THIS IS BILLY
Oh I recently watched Escape Room, which was...fine. Every single moment not spent in an escape room (incl flashbacks) was unwatchable
― Simon H., Thursday, 5 September 2019 19:42 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZgkHjpUM8w
also: here's the trailer for the new oz perkins thing
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 September 2019 19:42 (four years ago) link
which looks amazing
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 5 September 2019 19:44 (four years ago) link
Watched Starfish the other day, and surprised myself by liking it a lot. The trailer sells it as a quirky apocalyptic film with monsters, but it's actually a slow-paced metaphoric meditation on grief and forgiveness. The monsters are an add-on - though there's a big monster that's gorgeous - and the plot doesn't always make sense. The director name-checks Gareth Edwards in the credits, so if you dug "Monsters", you'll appreciate the one scene the big monster shows up in. The film goes heavily meta at one point, but I was already swayed to its "understand the subtext here and appreciate the images" logic, and didn't mind so much. Good soundtrack and visuals, too.
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Thursday, 5 September 2019 20:43 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI8fjr4Va7QBliss (2019). Vampire film with drugs and painting.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 7 September 2019 17:53 (four years ago) link
I thought Ready or Not was some good, ridiculous and just mean spirited enough fun. Loved the ending.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 9 September 2019 18:59 (four years ago) link
I watched The Innkeepers last night. Jeez. I like an old-fashioned haunting but this felt like something from tea-time on BBC2, circa 1983. No peril, barely any story and shitty production values. Perhaps I was having an off night.
― Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski), Sunday, 29 September 2019 18:55 (four years ago) link
nah i've seen it, it's rubbish
― Dominc Coombesings (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 29 September 2019 19:03 (four years ago) link
I thought it was fun
― frame casual (dog latin), Sunday, 29 September 2019 19:07 (four years ago) link
It was boring.
― Pauline Male (Eric H.), Monday, 30 September 2019 16:52 (four years ago) link
I agree w/ Eric and NV. aside from HotD, Ti West is pretty useless
― Simon H., Monday, 30 September 2019 18:00 (four years ago) link
I thought it was slightly better than HotD, but ultimately just fine.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 30 September 2019 18:45 (four years ago) link
Hotd is slightly better but they're both rubbish
― or something, Monday, 30 September 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
They both feel a lot older than 10 years - like relics, and not in a positive, aesthetic choice kind of way.
― Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski), Monday, 30 September 2019 19:36 (four years ago) link
Could've been made for TV tbh, and I mean pre HBO
― honk hunk blue (Noodle Vague), Monday, 30 September 2019 19:38 (four years ago) link
that mini-wave of ghost movies when stuff like The Others was made was all at least more entertaining than this
― honk hunk blue (Noodle Vague), Monday, 30 September 2019 19:41 (four years ago) link
posts way upthread otm about One Cut of the Dead, so much better than I expected it to be
― Brad C., Wednesday, 9 October 2019 01:34 (four years ago) link
Right? I'm glad it's got a US theatrical release.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 03:23 (four years ago) link
I just read that it's made $30 million worldwide on a $25,000 budget!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 October 2019 12:52 (four years ago) link
I watched The Ghoul last night, a British psychological horror film from 2017, directed by Gareth Tunney, an associate of Ben Wheatley. The basic premise was interesting enough - an undercover detective investigates a double shooting and becomes embroiled in what appears to be an occult plot, involving two psychotherapists - but the execution was a bit of a mess. The logic was Lynchian dream logic at heart, using a Mobius strip as shorthand for the slow dissolving of reality but the reality was never real enough and the unreality never quite perilous or unsettling enough. I love elisions but this was more hole than substance.
― Life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering...save string (Chinaski), Sunday, 13 October 2019 16:46 (four years ago) link
The Dead Center is an effective, moody little thriller w/ the bonus boost of Shane Carruth in the lead role
― Simon H., Sunday, 13 October 2019 17:11 (four years ago) link
this looks fun to me!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxIsI-EQ9Xs
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 14 October 2019 15:08 (four years ago) link
Well, it looks better than the Jarmusch movie and Zombieland 2, so there's that. But ... I think I'll pass on this one, too.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 14 October 2019 15:27 (four years ago) link
ma: destined to be hated by most but i loved every second of it. octavia spencer is wonderful and i appreciated what a solid high school movie it was and the dialogue is so often outrageous that i feel like whoever wrote it was having the time of their lives
creep: the mark duplass one, simple and excellent
― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, 14 October 2019 17:06 (four years ago) link
The sequel is pretty good, too! At least up until the very last shot, but the rest is solid and smart.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 14 October 2019 17:48 (four years ago) link
I enjoyed Ma. Some of the flashbacks reminded me of Happy Birthday to Me
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Monday, 14 October 2019 17:52 (four years ago) link
i had fun during the set-up but it fizzled pretty badly in the second half
― na (NA), Monday, 14 October 2019 18:33 (four years ago) link