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Sleepwalkers

(Mick Garris)





I don't remember which Christmas it was, but I do remember telling my mom that I wanted horror movies, any kind, as gifts. Stephen King's Sleepwalkers was under the tree that year. Then, probably more than a decade later, I watched it. This is my second viewing, one in which I can appreciate and laugh at the absurdity of it all. This is not really a horror film, it's a comedy. I mean, it has to be, right?

Mary and Charles are mother and son shape-shifting demons who can create illusions and have telekinetic powers. They need to suck the life force out of virgins to continue living and move from town to town doing so. The director, Garris, would later on use this same idea in Hocus Pocus. Their one weakness....CATS. Oh yeah, they bang each other all the time.

Based on an unpublished Stephen King story....there's your first warning, this Mick Garris film feels right out of the 80's, but was actually released in 1992. Garris is responsible for multiple King adaptions, and none of them are particularly good. Sleepwalkers has all the makings of a TV movie, bad acting, bad production values, cheesy effects and hilariously inappropriate moments. The moment that Charles turns into his cat like demonoid self and delivers weird and awkward, yet in his mind hilarious one-liners, is when you have to realize that this film is operating at another level. That level is beyond what we as normal human beings can even begin to comprehend. Sleepwalkers is a masterpiece of bad filmmaking.

The one recognizable face here is Mädchen Amick, from Twin Peaks fame. She plays the virgin (yeah right). The role requires the bare minimum from an actress in a horror film. For some bizarre reason though, this film is FULL of horror icon cameos; Stephen King, John Landis, Tobe Hooper, Clive Barker, Joe Dante and then for some reason Mark Hamill. These are fun little nods to viewers at home, who are already checked out of the story and are looking for some other sort of entertainment.

Watch this film when you have a bunch of friends over, want to watch a hilariously bad film and make a drinking game out of it. That's the best use of your time involving this one here.
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A movie that puts a spotlight on the comfortableness of racism.....had too much focus on racism? Consider me confused. Did Goodfellas deal too much with the mob?
I felt that every scene had racialist subtext. I'd rather I as a viewer was given a break.

To use "Goodefellas" analogy, it would be like they implied themselves to be good fellas in every scene.

Maybe I just didn't "get it".



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Halloween (1978, rewatch)




Wait, Easter is around the corner, not Halloween, right? Silly me, I get mixed up with all these candy related days.

Classic horror. It was a fun rewatch.
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Beauty and the Beast (2017)

I enjoyed this a lot. It looks fantastic. The castle is incredible.

It's just that all of the good bits were good bits in the first movie. There's nothing exciting about it because you know exactly where it's going to go. There are a few bits that are fleshed out, which were enjoyable, but mostly it's just.... the same. Good, but the same. There's a certain amount of redundancy in making a live action movie version of an animated film and then... animating a lot of it. The Beast's cgi face was distracting. Why couldn't they have used a few more practical effects? The casting was good, I liked Emma Watson as Belle, and Gaston and Le Fou were particularly good - all kudos to Josh Gad for taking the most cartoony of animated roles and making it plausible and sympathetic. The new songs don't add much - except to the running time. And much as I loved the old songs, I wonder whether without them, they would have been free to make something more original.




This might just do nobody any good.
Get Out (2017)

I'm in the minority who doesn't think this film is great. Racism card was played way too much, even if it was presented in subtle manner,- as if. "Something is creepily off" vibe was in every frame so it couldn't have rhythm. Though I must say few times it wasn't being annoying it managed to create genuine atmosphere of creepy dread. With better direction, this could have been a gem.
A movie that puts a spotlight on the uncomfortableness of racism.....had too much focus on racism? Consider me confused. Did Goodfellas deal too much with the mob?
I've seen this reaction a lot, actually. I can't imagine the uncomfortableness it's brought out not being intentional. It's meant to force people confront those ideas and personal thoughts on the subject matter, wether it's through intentional leading or through the audiences own initiative.

What I'm saying is if you think the "race card" was played too much, well, that's what the movie wanted you to think and confront.

Btw, I thought this was brilliantly directed and pretty flawless in writing. It's not often that a movie can be hilarious and f****** creepy on intention.



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Last movie I saw was yesterday XXX: Return Of The Xander Cage, I would rate it 8/10, I don't get why it has so low rating on imdb



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Lion (2016)



The scenes with the young Saroo were far more compelling than the adult scenes.
Wasnt he exceptional.



Wasnt he exceptional.
I watched Snowtown the other night. Wow, that was something LOL OMG
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You can't win an argument just by being right!
I watched Snowtown the other night. Wow, that was something LOL OMG
Oh yeah it's a pretty grubby film about a pretty grubby incident. Urghhh. Just talking about it makes me want to take a shower.



Oh yeah it's a pretty grubby film about a pretty grubby incident. Urghhh. Just talking about it makes me want to take a shower.
yeah, so ugly -- i think Daniel Henshall was amazing



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yeah, so ugly -- i think Daniel Henshall was amazing
The whole cast was pretty believable if memory serves me.



The whole cast was pretty believable if memory serves me.
very much so, that's why they didnt need to make it so explicit, well except that one scene in bath tub



Boogie Nights (1997) -


Perfection on every level. Quite possibly the best thing I've ever seen
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