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Although anytime I listen to The Touch now, I can’t help but chuckle as I think of the scene from Boogie Nights where Marky Mark is recording his awful cover.



Although anytime I listen to The Touch now, I can’t help but chuckle as I think of the scene from Boogie Nights where Marky Mark is recording his awful cover.

When I watched Boogie Nights way back when, that scene felt so weird...



Victim of The Night
I didn't read your whole review, as I want to know basically nothing going into this because I liked X that much, but this did really ramp up my excitement even more.



I didn't read your whole review, as I want to know basically nothing going into this because I liked X that much, but this did really ramp up my excitement even more.
I tried my best to avoid spoilers but I understand.

This was a “placate fears and build hype” review rather than anything particularly analytical.



Deeply moved to see my son the Nightbeast as your number one search.



Coworker just asked me to search for an item, and my autofill was NO help.





Cap, this is why you do you work-related web browsing chrome and your personal, casual web browsing in Firefox. In private mode.



Some recent-ish released movies I caught on Shudder the last month or so from the random watches of their channel programming that I don't know if I've seen people mention:


The Last Matinee - Giallo homage giallo-possibly-slasher, set in a movie theater. It exceeded my expectations and found it fairly well done and entertaining. General rex.


Gwen - I put this on in the background, so it was a half-watch. Interesting idea for a movie, and looked great, but from what I saw, it fell like it fell short of something truly memorable for me and I'm not entirely sure why. My best answer was that the developments felt too tragedy-porn predictable, but maybe all that the movie really needs is a second viewing, or at least one where I'm giving it my actual attention. Mentioning it because I strongly suspect this is one Wooly and Tak will like a lot. Also just an interesting decision of what type of movie it decided to be.

ETA: I watched The Last Matinee a couple of months ago. So maybe I've already mentioned it. Since I don't watch that many recent movies on Shudder, it felt worth bringing up.





Man Beast (1956)

I've watched documentaries about rock-climbing that had less rock-climbing footage than this film.

Things I learned from watching Man Beast:

*Rampaging blood-binges are not nearly as eventful as you'd think.
*Climbing a peak in the Himalayas does not require gloves, goggles or head coverings.
*Mountain climbers smoke cigarettes. Like a lot of them. While on the mountain, at high altitude.
*Ladies, just because you're stuck in a remote Himalayan outpost does not mean that you can't occasionally rock a nice gown and pumps.




On the plus side, the film is not stingy with its Yeti footage. Here we see one in its natural habitat, wielding a loaf of French bread as a weapon.




I mainline Windex and horse tranquilizer


On the plus side, the film is not stingy with its Yeti footage. Here we see one in its natural habitat, wielding a loaf of French bread as a weapon.




You laugh now, but clearly you have never had a load of French Bread shoved in your ass.
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Victim of The Night
You laugh now, but clearly you have never had a load of French Bread shoved in your ass.
He's from New Orleans, we all have.



I mainline Windex and horse tranquilizer
He's from New Orleans, we all have.



It's true. I was sh!tting Beignets for a week.





Audition, 1999

Shigeharu (Ryo Ishibashi) is a recent widower with a teenage son who decides he wants to get out into the dating world. His friend, a producer, suggests that they set up a fake audition for the "role" of Shigeharu's wife as a way to scope out potential partners. Shigeharu is drawn to Asami (Eihi Shiina), a young woman who seems to be a gentle open book. But Asami has some lingering traumas from her childhood that she attempts to resolve in a most violent manner.

Can you even imagine what it must have been like to see this film without knowing that it was a horror movie?

Very famously, the first half or so of this film operates like some quirky romantic comedy. Shigeharu and his friend setting up their little audition. But then things slowly begin to take a turn and then they very suddenly take a huge turn.

When it comes to horror content, torture is just something I don't do. It's not, and here I struggle to find the exact right term, productively cathartic for me. I think that there is definitely something horrifying about being helpless, but it's not something I get any enjoyment or release from as a viewer. It just makes me kind of uncomfortable and sad. It's something I find gross and upsetting, more than scary, if that makes sense.

That said, I mostly listened to the last 20 minutes of this film, stealing occasional, hand-filtered glances at the screen to read subtitles.

But I really liked the first 4/5 of the film, and especially the way that unsettling elements slowly wound their way into the story. The shot of Asami by the phone in her apartment, a large canvas bag looming ominously behind her. What I also like is the fact that, when taken as a whole, the actions of the main character are also horrific in their own way. He uses false pretenses to lure women to a building where he and his friend pepper them with personal questions, such as whether they would ever engage in sex work. Certain elements of the later torture sequence---such as Asami's cheery tone as she chants "Deeper, deeper!" or the thunk as the throws an amputated foot at some French doors--have a tone that belongs in the same universe as those "quirky romantic" opening sequences.

Now, does the movie think that the main character did anything wrong? I'm not sure. There's a bit of "b*tches be crazy!" to this film, as if a man running an elaborate casting couch scam on a woman 20 years his junior is just a minor indiscretion. We're meant to think that Asami has gone too far in being upset. I mean, she obviously goes a bit overboard, but certainly she deserves to be upset and I wish there was more acknowledgement of this.

I can certainly see why this rocked some peoples' world when it first came out.




For all of those years of avoiding Audition because people talked up the ending and the piano wire part so much. But then, when I finally watched it, I found myself cackling with laughter because it was like a Chuck Jones cartoon to me.
In my mind, I had imagined a very different movie.