A scary thing happened on the way to the Movie Forums - Horrorcrammers
Sorry that happened, but relieved to hear you're not going. I even debated PM-ing you to warn you.
If you can manage to get yourself trapped in a space capsule or something, that should be good for some scares
If you can manage to get yourself trapped in a space capsule or something, that should be good for some scares
Disney lets you reschedule, so the Haunted Mansion will have to wait until another day.
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Despite multiple viewings, I had forgotten (or maybe repressed, lol) that it contains that odious trope of
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the woman who is raped but discovers that she likes it and later flies into a jealous rage when she finds her rapist trying to rape another woman. SIGH!
That blemish aside, a good time. Uncle Peter is one of my favorite characters ever, especially with his facial expressions.
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I wasn't sure if she became insane or if she enjoyed that... encounter. Either way, that hasn't aged well, especially since it was played for laughs.
But yeah, nearly everything Pete says or does is funny. "Their fortune was...quite vast, actually!"
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I wasn't sure if she became insane or if she enjoyed that... encounter. Either way, that hasn't aged well, especially since it was played for laughs.
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the closed caption goes from "screaming" to "moaning" and then the sisters come up and one of them remarks, "Wow, look at that!". After, she comes into the house calling Ralph's name seductively, and only becomes angry when she sees him with another woman. So I think it's meant to be the latter and, you know, gross. It doesn't help that they take her spiky character and just switch gears to "dancing around in skimpy underwear for no reason". I'd say her character, especially in the second half, is the only real whiff of the film.
But yeah, nearly everything Pete says or does is funny. "Their fortune was...quite vast, actually!"
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I just watched Spider Baby earlier today, and I feel concur that Uncle Peter is the rug that really brings the room together.
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I'm watching The Entity and Ron Silver is suggesting that hysteria is why the main character has bite marks on her body and, woof, so punchable!
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I'm watching The Entity and Ron Silver is suggesting that hysteria is why the main character has bite marks on her body and, woof, so punchable!
How are you watching it, I've been trying to see it for years. I had watched it a bunch when I was a kid.
This movie should be titled Being a Woman Seeking Medical Care: The Movie.
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I sometimes feel alone as the only RT'er who doesn't do horror marathons every October. I'm just not good with committing to one genre/decade/etc for an extended period of time. I've done a few marathons in the past, but I often struggle to commit to them fully and am usually relieved when they finish. I also think I bailed on one in the past, not due to disliking the horror films I chose but because I wanted to get back to my normal wheelhouse. I'm all about variation.
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I sometimes feel alone as the only RT'er who doesn't do horror marathons every October. I'm just not good with committing to one genre/decade/etc for an extended period of time. I've done a few marathons in the past, but I often struggle to commit to them fully and am usually relieved when they finish. I also think I bailed on one in the past, not due to disliking the horror films I chose but because I wanted to get back to my normal wheelhouse. I'm all about variation.
I can certainly understand that but I'm a nut for this shit. I don't wanna watch anything else in October. So the Horrorthon is really just a formalizing of that.
I sometimes feel alone as the only RT'er who doesn't do horror marathons every October. I'm just not good with committing to one genre/decade/etc for an extended period of time. I've done a few marathons in the past, but I often struggle to commit to them fully and am usually relieved when they finish. I also think I bailed on one in the past, not due to disliking the horror films I chose but because I wanted to get back to my normal wheelhouse. I'm all about variation.
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I sometimes feel alone as the only RT'er who doesn't do horror marathons every October. I'm just not good with committing to one genre/decade/etc for an extended period of time.
I also do really well with a list/focus. If I'm just like "Let's watch a movie!!" I end up spending 25 minutes scrolling JustWatch and different services and half the time I'll just give up and put on sports or a cooking show.
I also think that marathons are . . . just a thing that you can do or not do. Honestly, if everyone was doing a marathon, it would be exhausting to keep up with all the threads and posts.
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I sometimes feel alone as the only RT'er who doesn't do horror marathons every October. I'm just not good with committing to one genre/decade/etc for an extended period of time. I've done a few marathons in the past, but I often struggle to commit to them fully and am usually relieved when they finish. I also think I bailed on one in the past, not due to disliking the horror films I chose but because I wanted to get back to my normal wheelhouse. I'm all about variation.
If you still want to do some horror but not all month maybe limit it to just the week leading up the Halloween, and pick like 7 you really want to see or something like that.
Frankly I get a chuckle when I open Letterboxd and see a bunch of horror films on my "friend's activity" list, and then there's one Belgian arthouse film in the middle of them. I know that one belongs to Speling without even checking the name. I respect it.
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For me, I try to watch a film every day, and on days I'm not working, I try to aim for three (I may try to increase this if I get more free time down the road though). I generally use curated lists to get recommendations from which encompass all sorts of genres, decades, countries. That's what I've been doing for years and that's what I'm comfortable with. I could do genre binges for a week, but though a month might not seem like a long time, it is for me. Once I feel I start to run out of films to watch on the lists I normally use, I may change my wheelhouse up, but that will take awhile.
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If you still want to do some horror but not all month maybe limit it to just the week leading up the Halloween, and pick like 7 you really want to see or something like that.
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Anyways, I don't know if anyone plays videogames here besides Wooley, but Amnesia: The Bunker is incredible.
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Oddity. After a woman is murdered her twin sister uses her psychic powers to investigate. Like The First Omen I solved the mystery extremely early, but that’s not really what was important here. It’s an expertly told story and all the characters are compelling and sympathetic in their own way. I’d heard how scary this movie was but was surprised to find it very funny too, especially Darcy. I’d watch a whole hacky show where this blind psychic and her creepy petrified body sidekick solve murders.
Exhuma. When a wealthy family’s baby is born sick the patriarch hires a team of shamans and geomancers to lift a curse on his deceased grandfather. It was such a fascinating concept to me that you need to bury loved ones in a good plot or they’d haunt you, and then you’d have to call in a geomancer to relocate their body. I don’t know anything about religions but I’m assuming this is all based on a real belief system. Anyway this movie is a wild ****ing ride that educated me on a whole host of rituals and superstitions.
I highly recommend both of them.
Exhuma. When a wealthy family’s baby is born sick the patriarch hires a team of shamans and geomancers to lift a curse on his deceased grandfather. It was such a fascinating concept to me that you need to bury loved ones in a good plot or they’d haunt you, and then you’d have to call in a geomancer to relocate their body. I don’t know anything about religions but I’m assuming this is all based on a real belief system. Anyway this movie is a wild ****ing ride that educated me on a whole host of rituals and superstitions.
I highly recommend both of them.
I sometimes feel alone as the only RT'er who doesn't do horror marathons every October. I'm just not good with committing to one genre/decade/etc for an extended period of time. I've done a few marathons in the past, but I often struggle to commit to them fully and am usually relieved when they finish. I also think I bailed on one in the past, not due to disliking the horror films I chose but because I wanted to get back to my normal wheelhouse. I'm all about variation.
I find the glut of horror movies I watch in October helps balance out all of the dramas I seem to be watching throughout the rest of the year. But the recommendation of doing a smaller marathon is probably better if it's not your thing (either the 7 days leading up to Halloween, or do like 7 in one day on the weekend before, like you're creating a program for other people (or do it as a program for other people), so it encourages you to think about trying to get a variety).
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Just got added to Criterion Channel.
This movie should be titled Being a Woman Seeking Medical Care: The Movie.
This movie should be titled Being a Woman Seeking Medical Care: The Movie.
I watched this some time in the past decade when it was screened at a theater. Something about the premise being based on a true story made the movie just seem extremely exploitative to me in a way that I normally don't with films.
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Clearly the real life version is a woman has a mental illness, the medical establishment is stumped and give answers (and are portrayed as the bad guys), and the people who are portrayed as the good guys are actually people enabling and exploiting her by encouraging her that it's real.
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