very much appreciate the change from "no likes" to "no likes yet", let us down easy letterboxd
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 13:34 (three years ago) link
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/
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 14:16 (three years ago) link
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/
― davey, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 14:26 (three years ago) link
xpost!
God Told Me To? Death Bed? Hausu? Feel like I need a bigger sample size to know what fits and what don't.
― Clem McFlannery's Clam Phlegm Cannery (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 14:26 (three years ago) link
So clearly Hausu, then.
― Clem McFlannery's Clam Phlegm Cannery (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 14:27 (three years ago) link
The Virgin Sacrifice (J.X. Williams)
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 14:34 (three years ago) link
would Alucarda count?
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 14:38 (three years ago) link
Don't know how strictly you're hewing to that particular early-to-mid-'70s era but Possession (1981), perhaps?
― Clem McFlannery's Clam Phlegm Cannery (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 14:47 (three years ago) link
If we're allowing more modern, Mandy and Black Rainbow seem like good ones. Possessor from last year has a similar vibe.
― I have no couch and I must stream (NotEnough), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 14:56 (three years ago) link
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.
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 15:11 (three years ago) link
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
― Clem McFlannery's Clam Phlegm Cannery (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 15:16 (three years ago) link
Do you have a copy of Nightmare USA, Ward? I'm sure that's filled to the brim with what you're looking for.
― Clem McFlannery's Clam Phlegm Cannery (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 15:17 (three years ago) link
Thanks OL, I do indeed. Still waiting on the second volume!
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 15:22 (three years ago) link
A Field In England? Or is that aping the aesthetic too self-consciously?
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 15:45 (three years ago) link
there's only one scene that really qualifies but it's so good i gotta recommend house on sorority row for this list
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 16:08 (three years ago) link
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
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 16:31 (three years ago) link
Field in England is Mushroom Horror obv.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 16:48 (three years ago) link
Blue Sunshine! Even though it's kind of lousy imo
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 18:47 (three years ago) link
it really is lol
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 18:49 (three years ago) link
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
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 19:16 (three years ago) link
As to Ward's query, perhaps these would qualify:
Messiah of Evil (1973)A Name for Evil (1973Eden and After (France, 1970)
Jean Rollin's entire oeuvre..?
― Josefa, Tuesday, 23 March 2021 20:30 (three years ago) link
xp to davey:It Follows?Happiness of the Katakuris?
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 19:22 (three years ago) link
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.
― davey, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 19:41 (three years ago) link
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
― or something, Wednesday, 24 March 2021 20:03 (three years ago) link
altered states (and probably lair of the white worm too, though i haven't seen it)
― na (NA), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 20:06 (three years ago) link
Probably worth scouring 366 Weird Movies for nominees.
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 20:17 (three years ago) link
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.
― this honking's on a bobo (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 21:31 (three years ago) link
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/
― davey, Thursday, 25 March 2021 10:54 (three years ago) link
h8 to self-promote but i think this movie broke my brain, it was on another level
― davey, Thursday, 25 March 2021 10:57 (three years ago) link
i'm sincerely confused about whether you liked it or not
― Nhex, Thursday, 25 March 2021 12:26 (three years ago) link
perfect ;p
― davey, Thursday, 25 March 2021 13:22 (three years ago) link
(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
― davey, Thursday, 25 March 2021 13:30 (three years ago) link
Eh, ratings are personal. There are lots of "objectively terrible" movies I will give high ratings because they're pinnacles of the form!
― Nhex, Thursday, 25 March 2021 14:27 (three years ago) link
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
― davey, Thursday, 25 March 2021 16:26 (three years ago) link
Spoken like a true ilxor
― Canon in Deez (silby), Thursday, 25 March 2021 16:39 (three years ago) link
thank u silby, i like that ilk
― davey, Thursday, 25 March 2021 16:59 (three years ago) link
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.
― clemenza, Monday, 5 April 2021 21:48 (three years ago) link
Now that’s a retirement activity if I ever heard one!
― Canon in Deez (silby), Monday, 5 April 2021 21:49 (three years ago) link
Retirement + pandemic + move to small, isolated town: basically, I'm going crazy.
― clemenza, Monday, 5 April 2021 21:49 (three years ago) link
https://phildellio.tripod.com/letterboxd.jpg
― clemenza, Monday, 5 April 2021 22:03 (three years ago) link
lol
― Nhex, Monday, 5 April 2021 22:14 (three years ago) link
I only recently started using the rating system again after abandoning it about a year ago in favour of either "liking" a film or not. Most of this was motivated by discovering that I have a pretty bad memory even for things that I've watched in the fairly recent past--did I only sorta like The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry when I watched it a few months ago, or did I actually dislike it?--but I kind of like believing that history will care about what I vaguely thought about some second-tier noirs and 80s teen films, so I'll play along.
― edited for dog profanity (cryptosicko), Monday, 5 April 2021 23:59 (three years ago) link
I think of the star ratings as snapshots of how I felt on a certain day and fully expect them to change with every watch.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 11:13 (three years ago) link
Every movie I see is a five-bagger tbrr
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 6 April 2021 12:13 (three years ago) link
yeah but six bags is the highest rating, we talked about this
― davey, Tuesday, 6 April 2021 12:20 (three years ago) link
1950s version, from Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country (which, truthfully, is boring me):
But even more than at the diary, Shimamura was surprised at her statement that she had carefully catalogued every novel and short story she had read since she was fifteen or sixteen. The record already filled ten notebooks.
"You write down your criticisms, do you?"
"I could never do anything like that. I just write down the author and the characters and how they are related to each other. That is about all."
"But what good does it do?"
"None at all."
― clemenza, Monday, 12 April 2021 14:12 (three years ago) link
stop yucking her yum, Kawabata
this is pretty self-indulgent but I'm enjoying the "how I letterboxd" profiles, this dude in particular has some great lists:
https://letterboxd.com/crew/story/how-i-letterboxd-justin-laliberty/
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 12 April 2021 14:42 (three years ago) link
Blame me, not him--I cut the passage off before this:
He knew well enough for her that it was in fact no waste of effort, but somehow the final determination that it was had the effect of distilling and purifying the woman's existence.
There's a whole ad campaign right there. Letterboxd: distilling and purifying the existences of film lovers since 2011.
― clemenza, Monday, 12 April 2021 14:49 (three years ago) link
Justin's an interesting dude.
― Nhex, Monday, 12 April 2021 17:06 (three years ago) link