@Kermit1 Well I'd put the murders and trying to condemn a soul to the kinky hell dimensions above he really likes sex on his list of being naughty myself but a pervert is accurate.
Monster High 13 Wishes on DVD tonight (also on Peacock), thought it might be some Halloween fun to revisit this movie. I don't have any of the dolls, but I always loved this movie series, mostly because of how creative it got with spooky stuff. I do like this movie series enough to own one of the games, and yes, I do have a Monster High game for Wii U.
I first saw this movie when it was on Netflix a long time ago and watched it out of curiosity. It still holds up IMO. Tells the story of how Howleen found a magic lamp with a genie who grants her 13 wishes, while the genie has an evil sister, trying to get Howleen to make bad wishes to help her take over the world. Still enjoyed watching it, even if the animation feels a bit dated by now.
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@Eagly I've not seen OG Carrie for years but I remember liking it.
I really like the opening. It's a horror movie opening with blood but not the slasher death blood has a kind of poetry to it show it's a different type of horror movie. As well as the switch from it's nudey fun to the quick snap of what Carrie has discovered.
I think you're undervaluing the jump scare ending as it's to show the trauma she went through rather than to scare people, she wants to remember her friend in a sad way but she did some messed up shiz which is hard to process and will stay with her for life. As well as arguing maybe Carrie’s mother was right all along whilst giving room to doubt it to make yourself decide.
The weird shots are intentional as the film is meant to have a dream like quality about to fit in all of the tones the film needs such as high school cheese YA drama horror, psychological horror of churchy upbringing and sci-fi horror. I actually find they work really well and doesn't keep the movie dated as you'd expect it would be. In particular the slow-mo shots during the prom are so well done for building suspense and then unleashing the massacre.
Sissy is so, SO good in it and fully deserving of the praise she got.
Italian Horror is like my one big horror blind spot. I have seen a couple of works from Fulci, including Zombie Flesh Eaters which is one of my favourite films of all time, but otherwise I have seen basically nothing.
As such I have now ticked off two of Argento's films, Phenomena - because of Jennifer Connelly mostly - and Suspiria. And I gotta be honest... I don't get it, like at all. I feel like that is some great sin as a horror fan, but I don't think either of these films are good.
Phenomena is almost like an anomaly in itself, as it has possibly the greatest closing 20 minutes in cinema history if you measure it purely on the bonkers scale, but the entire movie up until that point is awful. And Suspiria is just all of Phenomena's problems, minus an ending nearly as wonderfully bonkers. Suspiria is a really striking looking movie, but God it is just so boring.
Both suffer from obnoxious, repetitive, musical scores that blare loudly over everything, and maybe it is more because of the audio practices at the time of basically shooting a movie with no audio and then dubbing them in post, but both films are basically completely incoherent, and the acting is just atrocious.
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Tried and failed. Thirty minutes' opportunity too many, and much, much longer troubleshooting Peacock subscription glitches. Fortunately, I have yet to see many of the universal monster films.
I'm most curious to find out if nurse's overt pursuit of man-slaughterer is sincere, which is impossible, or if her crush is facetious or cruel or bewitched or something much more supernaturally grounded.
I will say truthfully that I like the concept of Haddonfield's becoming Michael Myers. But not enough to donate another hour and a half of my time.
I'm going to watch Half in the Bag now and comment profusely on why Mike and Jay are wrong, whatever that is.
In fairness Knives Out is the worst action movie I have ever seen! It's like the couldn't afford any CGI aliens for people to fight so they used illegal immigrant aliens instead to make up for it and then have everyone talk a lot to kill time before the movie is over.
In fairness, I watched Knives Out in theatres and loved it. Then I watched it again at home on BluRay, and while I still quite like it, I definitely lowered my evaluation of it. Like you can make quite a stagy, dialogue heavy movie visually interesting, but they really didn't do that here. I also think the ensemble while excellent, is also probably a little too big. There is really no room for the audience to make up their own theories, because the film can barely get around to establishing the motives of each character itself. This hurts the overall pacing and impact of the film for me.
I've just watched Operation Mincemeat. It's bloody lovely it was guvnor.
It's based on a true story I remember reading about ages ago, during World War 2 some British spies (including Ian Fleming who wrote the James Bond books) were creating a hoax to trick those pesky Nazis. They were planting a dead body with some fake plans which sounds simple enough but it's the details and lengths they go to for it though. It has to be the right dead body, they have to create a fake girlfriend, leave a bank overdraft letter in his briefcase and all these other nuances to create a believable story to sell it which really caught my interest in it.
@Kermit1 Be warned they take some liberties with the story though. It's been changed so it was 'mericans rather than the Brits, the allies are fighting antifa and Churchill now looks alot like Donald Trump for some reason.
On a serous note, this is a real film and it actually wasn't that bad.
Because of watching Monster High 13 Wishes last night, did another Monster High movie, Boo York Boo York tonight. In this one, Cleo De Nile has to go to Boo York (pun on New York... this series has a lot of puns with spooky stuff), and her friends go along to a gala to celebrate the arrival of a comet. While back at home, Ghoulia realizes the comet is on a direct collision course towards earth, and is trying to figure out how to save earth. Another fun Halloween watch.
The post credits scene that reveals the Ever After High characters talking on the phone with Astranova... I genuinely feel bad for anyone back in the mid 2010's looking forward to a crossover after that scene.
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I've recently watched some old films including Charile Chaplin's The Tramp. They're actually pretty good for their time.
I also watched the original King Kong. Great movie with impressive vfx for the time, but of course there's a good amount of racism and sexism in the film, which is no good.
Just finished the Suspiria remake. It is a very different film to the 1977 version and while this is probably blasphemous to say, I think I liked it better than the origina;. It isn't a great movie, but it is alright. Dakota Johnson writhing around in states of undress and a few truly bonkers sequences somehow made this movie go by pretty fast despite being ludicrously long. I have watched 90-minute movies that have felt a hundred times longer than this two-and-a-half-hour behemoth.
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