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Beyond the Door 2 or Shock is one of Mario Bava's best films and a subtle but great film to end a career on.
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Beyond The Door III is some premium Italian-horror insanity. Satanic rituals and Bo Svenson lead to a runaway demon-possessed locomotive zipping down the train tracks, sowing horror and decapitations and occult insanity, whipsawing from supernatural absurdity to cheap effects to genuinely striking imagery to seriously depicted attempts by the law and others to stop the train, like something out of a more grounded disaster procedural film. It's the sort of movie I watch Italian horror films from that period for.
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Related in Italian horror movie watching, I finally got around to watching The Editor, the parody/homage to giallo films and Italian genre filmmaking from the 60s-80s from the Astron-6 collective. Sure, there's making fun of everything that was janky about gialli, the bad dubbing, the plots that barely hold together, slap-happy detectives and so on, but the makers are true fans and instead of just memberberrying with references and homages. some of them sly, to movies like New York Ripper, Hitch-Hike and The Strange Vice of Mrs. Mardh, they try to make something that is just as lurid, or even moreso than a lot of those gialli. Not that they're attempting to pass it off like it's an actual genre film, like some parodies do. We're spared deliberate twitching film-lint and crappy video quality, etc.
They revel in the luridness and the pulpy style that gave a lot of these movies their juice and try to out-exploit the exploitation films they're parodying/homaging.
The story is that Rey Ciso (director Adam Brooks) was once a prodigious film editor, who masterfully cut thrillers like The Mirror and The Guillotine and The Cat With The Velvet Blade until one night, overworked and overstressed he lost four fingers in a freak editing accident. Now he has had to replace them with a glove featuring clumsily wooden prosthetics. He gets by now, editing junk and trash flicks for a studio, and is working on sleazy director Francesco Mancini's latest giallo/poliziotteschi flick. The only light in his life is his attractive, admiring assistant, where other crew members and studio people like Mancini consider him a "cripple" while he trudges home to his unfaithful wife, a bitter washed-up actress who sees himas an embarrassment and makes sure to treat him like one. Then the lead actor on the current film (and Rey's wife's former leading man she still pines for) and his girlfriend are found murdered, with four fingers each roughly cut off. The inspector who catches the case is determined to track the killer down, especially since his actress wife stumbled on the murder scene and was stricken with hysterical blindness and of course he believes Rey is the killer...
They revel in the luridness and the pulpy style that gave a lot of these movies their juice and try to out-exploit the exploitation films they're parodying/homaging.
The story is that Rey Ciso (director Adam Brooks) was once a prodigious film editor, who masterfully cut thrillers like The Mirror and The Guillotine and The Cat With The Velvet Blade until one night, overworked and overstressed he lost four fingers in a freak editing accident. Now he has had to replace them with a glove featuring clumsily wooden prosthetics. He gets by now, editing junk and trash flicks for a studio, and is working on sleazy director Francesco Mancini's latest giallo/poliziotteschi flick. The only light in his life is his attractive, admiring assistant, where other crew members and studio people like Mancini consider him a "cripple" while he trudges home to his unfaithful wife, a bitter washed-up actress who sees himas an embarrassment and makes sure to treat him like one. Then the lead actor on the current film (and Rey's wife's former leading man she still pines for) and his girlfriend are found murdered, with four fingers each roughly cut off. The inspector who catches the case is determined to track the killer down, especially since his actress wife stumbled on the murder scene and was stricken with hysterical blindness and of course he believes Rey is the killer...
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I really hated that one. To do an oldschool homage is already risky because there's so many ways it can go wrong and when the filmmakers intentionally make something crappy it tends to be not just crappy but very unfunny.
I liked Udo Kier but otherwise I hated The Editor. There's two other homages that came out recently I've been meaning to check out like Maniac Driver which is a giallo homage and Nightmare Symphony which is made by Italians and written by the guy who Fulci's Cat in the Brain.
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I watched First Omen. Back up: there's a new Omen prequel, called "First Omen". It has a female lead (a strong female character) and a rather feminist theme. I was able to deduce that much from the title, without so much as a trailer. I thought it was nice-looking and well-acted and so on, but well, it is what it is. You know the drill by now. Audience scores seem to be lagging way behind the critics. I didn't watch that last Exorcist but I bet it's at least probably better than that.
Some primary bullet points, without spoilers:
* It's a direct prequel to the original Omen; definitely that one, not a reboot
* despite that, retcons the hell out of the original
* also seems to be setting up a sequel (or possible Omen Cinematic Universe, dare we hope?)
* gotta say it's just weird to make a brand new movie about the antichrist being born like 60 years ago; I certainly hope they're leading to a sequel set in CY+ where Damien is a modern conservative politician because lmao
No need for spoilers. Whatever you would expect to happen, that's what happens.
Some primary bullet points, without spoilers:
* It's a direct prequel to the original Omen; definitely that one, not a reboot
* despite that, retcons the hell out of the original
* also seems to be setting up a sequel (or possible Omen Cinematic Universe, dare we hope?)
* gotta say it's just weird to make a brand new movie about the antichrist being born like 60 years ago; I certainly hope they're leading to a sequel set in CY+ where Damien is a modern conservative politician because lmao
No need for spoilers. Whatever you would expect to happen, that's what happens.
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The hype for this First Omen has been ridiculous, oh it's the most blasphemous, most shocking, most disturbing, most this or that horror film yet. I just say, I have my doubts.
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caught Talk To Me (Australia 2022)
teens fuck around with spoopy thing while drinking and smoking and egging each other on to fuck around with the spoopy thing
clearly nothing can go wrong with this plan
hardly groundbreaking but a nice enough thing
teens fuck around with spoopy thing while drinking and smoking and egging each other on to fuck around with the spoopy thing
clearly nothing can go wrong with this plan
hardly groundbreaking but a nice enough thing
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There are a couple shots I'm honestly surprised they got away with. Not particularly disturbing imo, but certainly graphic. But if there's hype, yeah don't believe it.
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Dark Nature is a (likely) slept on one that I watched recently:
It has the sociopathic ginger chick from What Keeps You Alive (who was also one of the main coroners in Jigsaw) as a survivor of domestic abuse, who goes on a camping trip to reconnect with her best mate, and also share her trauma with other women in the group who have been traumatised in similar, and or, different ways. It's quite enjoyable if you're into films that involve a tense, paranoic atmosphere.
It has the sociopathic ginger chick from What Keeps You Alive (who was also one of the main coroners in Jigsaw) as a survivor of domestic abuse, who goes on a camping trip to reconnect with her best mate, and also share her trauma with other women in the group who have been traumatised in similar, and or, different ways. It's quite enjoyable if you're into films that involve a tense, paranoic atmosphere.
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Watched it. It was meh. Nothing special, nothing interesting. The last sequel from 91 has that daughter of Damien, which I thought was meh. It just doesn't have any shock anymore.
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I watched Lord of Misrule (2023) . OK, watched is a bit strong. I saw the first 45-50 minutes, and then bailed on this abomination. It's pretty odd, it's directed by the director of The Boy (and more importantly Brahams: The Boy 2), and written by the writer of The Quiet Ones (2014) (a quite good little flick that I always forget the name of), and The Hallow (2015) (a bog standard horror movie that's a fine way to kill 80 minutes). But this? This is just utter shit. I don't bail on a lot of horror movies. I might fast forward through stupid parts for a minute or two (or a half hour if there's a haunted train and ZERO titties involved, looking at you, Beyond the Door 3), but just completely bailing is a rarity.
This is essentially a Wicker Man rip off. Only instead of a cop coming to the village, it's a vicar and her husband who are already living there. There's no real horror or gore or anything, at least in the first 45 minutes, and I don't care if the rest of it was Blood Sucking Freaks, it's just not worth it. The primary problem is the combination of soul-less automaton Tuppence Middleton in the lead role and a script written by someone who has never met another human.
Tuppence's young daughter goes missing the night of the ironic (but not!) pagan festival. And she does a half-hearted search, without, you know, screaming or asking for help, or even telling her fucking husband. Then the next day the cops come and "help," and there's video of her kid being abducted from the festival. Well, that's a big help, isn't it? No, not really. The cops can't find the guy or the girl, but also totally don't bother searching where the guy lives, because... honestly I'm not even sure if they gave a throw-away line reason why they didn't or not. Anyway, she goes there, and confronts the guy's grandfather, who "doesn't know where he is" despite her asking at least two times. Also there's a big bloody nature altar (and I mean literal blood, with organs and bones and shit, not bloody in the Br*tish sense) in the guy's house, but that's probably not important.
So she starts talking to other villagers, and stuff, and goes on with her sermon at the church, because I mean she just lost her daughter, it's not like she'd miss a day of work or anything. And believe me, it's just work. It'd have been interesting if she'd like relied on her faith in god or Jesus or whatever to juxtapose with the old religion and have that be an element of her combatting the village - but that'd also be interesting, so we can't have that.
Then, of course, we find out that another kid went missing 12 or so years before that, and it was either Ralph Inneson or his kid (and he's usually great in everything he's in, from The Office to The VVitch, but he's fucking neutered in this). Anyway, it's every fucking trope and beat from every other fucking folk horror movie, just done dumber and more boringer.
Maybe it's because I just watched The Burning Girls (Roku mini-series), which, while it wasn't exactly good, was several orders of magnitude better than this. According to a lot of IMDB reviews, the end of this is really disappointing, but I don't see how it could be, seeing as how halfway through the second act it turned me retarded. No titties, no gore, terrible in every way, except the good way; 0/5, don't watch even if you're bored or a Ralph Inneson fan.
This is essentially a Wicker Man rip off. Only instead of a cop coming to the village, it's a vicar and her husband who are already living there. There's no real horror or gore or anything, at least in the first 45 minutes, and I don't care if the rest of it was Blood Sucking Freaks, it's just not worth it. The primary problem is the combination of soul-less automaton Tuppence Middleton in the lead role and a script written by someone who has never met another human.
Tuppence's young daughter goes missing the night of the ironic (but not!) pagan festival. And she does a half-hearted search, without, you know, screaming or asking for help, or even telling her fucking husband. Then the next day the cops come and "help," and there's video of her kid being abducted from the festival. Well, that's a big help, isn't it? No, not really. The cops can't find the guy or the girl, but also totally don't bother searching where the guy lives, because... honestly I'm not even sure if they gave a throw-away line reason why they didn't or not. Anyway, she goes there, and confronts the guy's grandfather, who "doesn't know where he is" despite her asking at least two times. Also there's a big bloody nature altar (and I mean literal blood, with organs and bones and shit, not bloody in the Br*tish sense) in the guy's house, but that's probably not important.
So she starts talking to other villagers, and stuff, and goes on with her sermon at the church, because I mean she just lost her daughter, it's not like she'd miss a day of work or anything. And believe me, it's just work. It'd have been interesting if she'd like relied on her faith in god or Jesus or whatever to juxtapose with the old religion and have that be an element of her combatting the village - but that'd also be interesting, so we can't have that.
Then, of course, we find out that another kid went missing 12 or so years before that, and it was either Ralph Inneson or his kid (and he's usually great in everything he's in, from The Office to The VVitch, but he's fucking neutered in this). Anyway, it's every fucking trope and beat from every other fucking folk horror movie, just done dumber and more boringer.
Maybe it's because I just watched The Burning Girls (Roku mini-series), which, while it wasn't exactly good, was several orders of magnitude better than this. According to a lot of IMDB reviews, the end of this is really disappointing, but I don't see how it could be, seeing as how halfway through the second act it turned me retarded. No titties, no gore, terrible in every way, except the good way; 0/5, don't watch even if you're bored or a Ralph Inneson fan.
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Immaculate is also in theaters now and is apparently pretty much the same movie minus the memberberries. Neither seem to be doing great. Nobody's got the guts to do nunsploitation the right way nowadays. It would be easy to make a real crowd-pleaser.
Also applies to First Omen, incidentally. He's going to be in Nosferatu 2024 too.
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It's a real shame, the guy is one of the best character actors working, and his movies of the last 5 years or so have just been utter shit. I mean Northman was probably the best thing he's been in in thst time period and i think he had literally one line (basically just because the director owed him for carrying VVitch).
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We don't get enough unironic pipe organ music these days
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I think a lot of modern movies from the states have forgotten how to set up atmosphere with out being loud as fuck.
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This is just an FYI because I was looking through Tubi and came across Death in Venice AKA Gore in Venice:
This flick is infamous for the gore sequences including the chick from Burial Ground having her leg slowly cut off. But, this version uploaded by Full Moon is cut to fuck. I've heard of Full Moon doing this with their other flicks too. So, if you see anything uploaded by Full Moon or Full Moon Features just be aware you may be seeing a cut version.
This flick is infamous for the gore sequences including the chick from Burial Ground having her leg slowly cut off. But, this version uploaded by Full Moon is cut to fuck. I've heard of Full Moon doing this with their other flicks too. So, if you see anything uploaded by Full Moon or Full Moon Features just be aware you may be seeing a cut version.
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this is like, THAT Full Moon who used to be cool in the VHS days, right?
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Yes the very same. The owner Charles Band is a total sleazeball scumbag. When he found out people were into collecting old VHS tapes he lied about finding a bunch of rare Wizard Video collectable big box tapes in his warehouse. He was exposed by a youtuber who proved without a doubt he was just making brand new ones to capitalize off of the trend.
He also likes to re-edit his studios old films into anthologies and try to pass them off as new movies.
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Blumhouse really has enough fuck you money to not learn their lesson from Exorcist Believer, hell Blair Witch was lightning in a bottle so there is really no franchise potential there.
But Hollywood execs are creatively bankrupt