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Some thoughts on a pair of movies I recently saw.

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Since the director got #MeToo'd it seems he won't be able to do the other Lovecraft adaptations he planned. That's a shame as I would have been curious to see how they would've turn out.

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The first segment was the best. The second was the worst. The third had some good body horror like in Frankenstein's Army. The last segment was safe edgy garbage (a "white supremacist" militia that does not utter one racial slur? Come on now!). The wraparound story was also stupid, especially with tying one of the cops to the militia.
 
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Color was okay but it's really silly to try to make that in visual media .
"an unknowable color beyond our Earth" ends up "uhh sorta purple"
 
Managed to watch an early viewing of Final Destination Bloodlines.
The first half was good, then it all went downhill after the hospital scene. The movie took a turn to absurd looney tunes territory that I wondered if there was some director switch or something. Even the CGI changed to cartoony gore splatters. Did the movie ran out of budget or something? Regardless, nice to know that FD finally has balls to kill a kid onscreen after they have to age up one in 3(?) because it was taboo or something at the time.
It was hilarious to know if Death was angered enough and really wants someone to die, he will reach a point of "fuck collateral damage". He fucking made a whole train derail and destroy a whole neighbor block just to get rid of two people.
 
I watched Heart Eyes and The Ugly Stepsister.

Heart Eyes was pretty well neutered. I guess if you liked Thanksgiving, you might like it. There were a few sensible chuckles in it. Honestly, it was actually a little bit more enjoyable than I expected it to be. Had a couple of decent kills in it, but was much more of an homage to romcoms than slashers. The reveal of the "killer" was retarded. Nobody was likeable, but that's kind of OK. Really it's just far too tame to be good, but, like I said there are a few sensible chuckles in it, mostly in the first 30 minutes, then it becomes a bit tedious. Jami Gertz hams it up for 5 minutes for some reason. No tits, like 3 gory kills, most intentional jokes suck, but a few hit home.


The Ugly Stepsister, on the other hand, was fucking great. It's in Norwegian I think (possibly Swedish), and it's a very guilty pleasure. I mean you literally feel guilty watching it. The film is so damn mean to the main character, but at the same time, it's fun and interesting.

It's a retelling of Cinderella from (of course) the ugly stepsister's perspective, in 18th century Scandinavia. It mostly focuses on her journey to become less "ugly" (she's adorable from the start, which is why it feels so mean) so she can win the prince. It's just funny and terrible and good. The end is a little bit of a letdown, but that's really the only flaw.

It's not really a horror, at most it's a mild body horror, but it is absolutely horrible. There's tits, but you shouldn't enjoy them. Some gore and grossness, but just great lovable and hateable characters. Lots of fun, but so, so mean!
 
TubiTV browsing brought me to the HP Lovecraft Historical Society adaptions of The Call of Cthulhu and The Whisperer in Darkness with the conceit they are produced in the style of films at the time of the original stories' publication. Thus CoC, is conceived as a black and white silent film with cardboard backdrops, models and a stop-motion Cthulhu. Whisperer is filmed in a way similar to an early 1930s horror "talkie", complete with some period-appropriate style ham acting:

"I am the Opener of the Gate, and YOU WILL NOT DICTATE TO ME!"

Whisperer also features a character who seems to be a recurring character in HPLHS productions, a Miskatonic U. professor, Nathaniel Ward who tries to warn his colleague Wilmarth to not go poking around up in Vermont, in part by showing off the hand scarring he got from one of his previous run-ins with "nameless cults". Ward also appeared in some of HPLHS's audio productions, like their Mercury Theater on the Air-style adaptions of stories like "Dagon".
 
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Commander X said:
TubiTV browsing brought me to the HP Lovecraft Historical Society adaptions of The Call of Cthulhu and The Whisperer in Darkness with the conceit they are produced in the style of films at the time of the original stories' publication. Thus CoC, is conceived as a black and white silent film with cardboard backdrops, models and a stop-motion Cthulhu. Whisperer is filmed in a way similar to an early 1930s horror "talkie", complete with some period-appropriate style ham acting:

"I am the Opener of the Gate, and YOU WILL NOT DICTATE TO ME!"

Whisperer also features a character who seems to be a recurring character in HPLHS productions, a Miskatonic U. professor, Nathaniel Ward who tries to warn his colleague Wilmarth to not go poking around up in Vermont, in part by showing off the hand scarring he got from one of his previous run-ins with "nameless cults". Ward also appeared in some of HPLHS's audio productions, like their Mercury Theater on the Air-style adaptions of stories like "Dagon".
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I recall seeing that CoC ages ago, yeah really fun stuff iirc
 
Commander X said:
TubiTV browsing brought me to the HP Lovecraft Historical Society adaptions of The Call of Cthulhu and The Whisperer in Darkness with the conceit they are produced in the style of films at the time of the original stories' publication. Thus CoC, is conceived as a black and white silent film with cardboard backdrops, models and a stop-motion Cthulhu. Whisperer is filmed in a way similar to an early 1930s horror "talkie", complete with some period-appropriate style ham acting:

"I am the Opener of the Gate, and YOU WILL NOT DICTATE TO ME!"

Whisperer also features a character who seems to be a recurring character in HPLHS productions, a Miskatonic U. professor, Nathaniel Ward who tries to warn his colleague Wilmarth to not go poking around up in Vermont, in part by showing off the hand scarring he got from one of his previous run-ins with "nameless cults". Ward also appeared in some of HPLHS's audio productions, like their Mercury Theater on the Air-style adaptions of stories like "Dagon".
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I have a DVD copy of Whisperer. The HPLHS tried, but some of the actors are so bad it's a challenge to stay engaged while they're on screen, and because it's a pastiche and I thereby have a frame of reference for what they were going for with some of the performances I just wish all the more it had actually been made in the 30s with period actors.

Still, Wilmarth's actor did a good job, and the CGI was, remarkably, decent: it's a passion project that is hard to appreciate at its lows, but punches far above its budget - I haven't investigated deeply, but I keep seeing "$50,000" tossed around on cursory search.
 
crowabunga said:
I have a DVD copy of Whisperer. The HPLHS tried, but some of the actors are so bad it's a challenge to stay engaged while they're on screen, and because it's a pastiche and I thereby have a frame of reference for what they were going for with some of the performances I just wish all the more it had actually been made in the 30s with period actors.
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I dropped out of Call of Cthulhu pretty early on. You just can't get the proper effect with a digital filter and some randos overacting. At this point I think any HPL adaptation is doomed to be a cutesy meme like this. It's okay for things to be books and not movies, just stop guys.

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The best horror fiction is social conscious and cautionary. [/shitlib]
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Is The Lighthouse an allegory about how jerking off to anime and never going outside will drive you insane? That's what I got out of it.
 
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