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TVBForever said:
I'm thinking of watching The Black Phone this weekend.
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I rewatched it through piracy, and it's pretty decent. But if you want to watch it, be sure there aren't many people around to watch it with aside from like a friend because the movie is one of those more quiet horror movies.

It's actually pretty good and captures the 70s aesthetic well.
 
This Paul Morrissey interview on the Blood for Dracula bluray is a lot of fun. He calls Andy Warhol "autistic" and "a vegetable" and says he knew nothing about art. He also says that film has been dead since the 1970s and if you have a kid you might as well hand it over to your toilet to raise. This is better than the movie honestly.
 
Something I was reacquainted with recently were the BBC adaptions from the 1970s of stories by M.R. James, antiquarian, professor of medieval literature and sometimes author of stories of the supernatural featuring often rather tactile phantoms and manifestations that sometimes make themselves known via touch. Most of the original 1970s run of the BBC's "A Ghost Story for Christmas" were directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark, a true visual stylist when it comes to ghosts and such.

Among my favorites from this run was the adaption of "A Warning To The Curious" (1972), about a man, a relic and a curse. Spine-tinglingly understated dread runs through this telefilm, with shots of a haunting countryside, the low-key menace of a single figure lurking in the distance, and ghostly whispers of coastal wind and brush.


"The Treasure of Abbot Thomas", wherein a respectable theologian - and debunker of spiritualist frauds - is caught up with hunting for a long-disgraced monk's legendary hidden treasure. It's been a few centuries but the treasure is still guarded...


"Lost Hearts", where in 36 minutes Clark manages to suffuse the screen with more haunting and unsettling imagery than some entire movie franchises, a real course on spectral dread as a young orphan moves in with an elderly cousin who comes off as a harmless eccentric, but he is not the first child to benefit from the man's generosity...


"The Signalman" Clark takes a break from James to adapt a story of the railways by Charles Dickens. The sinister omens that appear are nightmarish but so is the way the railroad tunnel is shot, as if it's choked with shadows. Denholm Elliot's performance really adds to the story.

 
Watched a movie on Tubi, "The dark web tapes" and holy shit was it awful. It was an hour long make-up tutorial -no joke. "Daddy's little girl" on Tubi is excellent however. If you like gore porn, that's the movie for you. (Movie makes hostel look family friendly).
 
Mandy 2018 was surprisingly good. David Lynch + Hellraiser + Rob Zombie + Nicholas Cage = Mandy. A little slow burn at times but really satisfying in the end. Psychedelia, great OST, lots of gore, also finally a movie with Nic Cage and penetration in it! (tho not done by Nic himself, that would've been too awesome).

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I really wanna watch Crimes of the Future but I keep pushign it off because of all the articles saying it's a pro-tranny movie ngl
 
Disco Stud said:
Mandy 2018 was surprisingly good. David Lynch + Hellraiser + Rob Zombie + Nicholas Cage = Mandy. A little slow burn at times but really satisfying in the end. Psychedelia, great OST, lots of gore, also finally a movie with Nic Cage and penetration in it! (tho not done by Nic himself, that would've been too awesome).

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Mandy is such a fun movie. A fun as hell, brainless acid trip rollercoaster ride of a kino.
 
So I'm watching False Positive and, uh... Did A24 just pivot to making horror movies about how men are shit, now?

Men, Midsommar, X, now False Positive... that's basically four in a row.


edit: and all four movies are also shit, surprise surprise.

Now i don't want to check out Saint Maud.
 
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I saw a few horror movies lately. Those being Sinister (2012), The Sadness (2022), and The Thing (1982)


Sinister was a pretty decent horror movie. It had a few really great moments, but it was really carried by those video tapes and the family drama which actually felt somewhat believable. But there were some moments that felt way too corny. It's worth a watch, and has some neat stuff.

The Sadness was fucking trash since the film is really hard to take seriously since it reminds me a lot of World War Z in some aspects. The only good parts were the scenes with the creepy old man because the guy who played him was hamming it up. It also had some very hamfisted commentary about COVID which just felt out of place sine most of the movie lacked any depth and was just a gorefest. Which was fun at parts but got old really fast. Not worth the watch.

The Thing definitely deserves all the hype that it has gotten. Surprisingly, the paranoia that everyone felt actually scared me more than the monster itself which was a cool monster. But the aspect of paranoia and trust really felt like a very personal fear that really works well, especially when some of the characters are going crazy from their fear, which is very well founded. Everyone was really smart too which honestly helped in making the film more effective and I'd definitely want to rewatch this someday
 
Doctor of Autism said:
I saw a few horror movies lately. Those being Sinister (2012), The Sadness (2022), and The Thing (1982)


Sinister was a pretty decent horror movie. It had a few really great moments, but it was really carried by those video tapes and the family drama which actually felt somewhat believable. But there were some moments that felt way too corny. It's worth a watch, and has some neat stuff.

The Sadness was fucking trash since the film is really hard to take seriously since it reminds me a lot of World War Z in some aspects. The only good parts were the scenes with the creepy old man because the guy who played him was hamming it up. It also had some very hamfisted commentary about COVID which just felt out of place sine most of the movie lacked any depth and was just a gorefest. Which was fun at parts but got old really fast. Not worth the watch.

The Thing definitely deserves all the hype that it has gotten. Surprisingly, the paranoia that everyone felt actually scared me more than the monster itself which was a cool monster. But the aspect of paranoia and trust really felt like a very personal fear that really works well, especially when some of the characters are going crazy from their fear, which is very well founded. Everyone was really smart too which honestly helped in making the film more effective and I'd definitely want to rewatch this someday
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I think you're the first person here to dislike The Sadness.
 
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