Have you seen the Detention movie? I thought that was pretty good.
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No! Too spooky for me. My wife has been watching the show and it’s apparently really different from the game. More like a sequel/rebootish thing. Kind of wild how it has become such a media empire
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Has anyone used the headline “Sympathy for the De Vil” for a review of the Cruella movie yet
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yes
also this was the title of an episode of the disney series once upon a time
also this song does absolutely literally play zack snyder style in the movie as she embraces the cruella persona
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My friend got me to watch A Quiet Place so we could go see the sequel. I like it despite some goofy enviromental storytelling (what is the WEAKNESS???) and the fact it all hinged on the actual monster weakness being the most obvious thing imaginable. Kinda funny that all human society supposedly collapsed in a matter of weeks because of rampaging ape-like predators that just happen to be bulletproof.
Quiet Place$ is pretty much more of the same, only now the Last of Us influence is way more overt. It’s pretty much the same basic plot outline: grizzled beard guy who has lost all hope, tasked with protecting a teenage girl who holds the only hope for humanity’s survival as they travel to some beacon of hope across the country. It even starts with a flashback going back to Day 1 which has some similar sequences of in-vehicle POV shots of the protagonists trying to drive away from the monsters while crowds are frantically running in the way etc.
Anyway, if you liked the first one this is a decent follow-up. Bit more conventional but still full of pretty intense scenes.
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theres a work in progress extended cut of the super mario bros movie that restores the 20 minutes of cut footage
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watched the incredibly trashy italo-slasher bodycount which has a rocking simonetti (of goblin fame) score and i keep laughing imagining that it’s directly responsible for konami orchestra hits
those drums tough as fuck
I love A Bucket of Blood so much. Beatnick-sploitation is a great genre.
If you’re programming a double feature, there’s a great early 60s film where a painter discovers human blood is the missing element to inspire his work and he terrorizes some kids who are hanging out on the nearby beach to get more. I cannnnot remember the name though. Edit: it’s HGL’s Color Me Blood Red
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triple feature it with blood car the movie with a vegan who learns to power a car on blood co starring alex mack
it is not an 60s movie though play it last when everyone’s intoxicated
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I prefer Mad Detective over Blind Detective but almost every To/Ka-Fai film is wonderful in its own way.
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I’ve only seen a handful but running on karma was the first to+ka-fai tag team one I’ve seen I really liked. mad detective and fulltime killer I thought were ok but kind of weird and also why I unfortunately put off watching to’s solo moves for too long. I’m counting blind detective which I really like as just to because it was just him directing even though ka-fai produced and was one of three writers on it. the solo to movies with ka-fai credited as writer are all definitely some of the more oddball feeling ones though, and it seems to work best for me on the more romantic ones so I should probably watch don’t go breaking my heart sometime
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my favorite version of the Penguin
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Ghosthouse (1988) - the backstory to this is that the first two evil dead movies were released in italy as La Casa and La Casa II and then army of darkness being another few years out i guess they just decided to make a new, completely unrelated movie and call it La Casa III. i guess to maintain kayfabe the director went by the american sounding name of Humphrey Humbert. anyway it’s obviously not as manic as the first two but is still pretty hectic and fast paced for a haunted house movie, skipping through a lot of the set up to get right to the part about flying ornaments dismembering people. the main villain is the creepy child + doll from those old test pattern pictures but they keep it fresh by also throwing in a crazed groundskeeper, evil dog, creepy recurring children’s song, skeleton guy, vat of what seems to be lye, exploding lightbulbs, washing machine with a head in it, hands etc. the best character is Pepe the comic relief hitchhiker who always carries a plastic skeleton hand around to scare people with and also pick their pockets. for the ending they break into a child’s tomb, douse her corpse in gasoline and set it on fire!! lots of good library music as well.
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Final Destination 3 has topless women in the worst, UV purple lighting sing an edited version of Love Rollercoaster that is purely the song’s chorus repeated over and over, and the movie makes them do this until they fry to death in an electricity fire. The scene was stupid, but the edited song just made the whole thing especially grotesque.
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one of the later ones (4 or 5) has the rare distinction of being a movie filmed in vancouver that is also actually set in vancouver
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I’d guess that’s FD 5. Kudos to Vancouver, cause that’s the best one too!
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