Currently Joko Anwar is one of my favorite directors. He does creepy real good with no pussyfooting around, you know? Just genuine creepy horror meant to freak you out. His next movie, Grave Torture, is based on his short from years ago and I am excite. He seems to have a predilection for putting young'uns through their paces.

rsmurphy wrote: Wed Jan 17, 2024 8:47 pm Currently Joko Anwar is one of my favorite directors. He does creepy real good with no pussyfooting around, you know? Just genuine creepy horror meant to freak you out. His next movie, Grave Torture, is based on his short from years ago and I am excite. He seems to have a predilection for putting young'uns through their paces.

Same here, he's fantastic. Your post was the catalyst for us re-watching Impetigore and The Queen of Black Magic this weekend, planning on rewatching the Satan's Slaves movies one night next week. I think Impetigore is my favorite so far but they've all been good.

mrcancelled wrote: Sun Jan 21, 2024 7:29 pm re-watching Impetigore and The Queen of Black Magic...

Recently I had planned on doing the same thing but got caught-up as usual with finding something recent that I haven't seen. I re-watched both of the Satan's Slaves movies not very long ago.
Gave this Spanish one called The Elderly a go the other night. It's about a community of elders getting increasingly strange on one of the hottest nights of the year.



Big fan of the SCP Foundation and have been patiently waiting for someone to direct a live action short. Overlord doesn't refer to any specific SCP anomaly, but it's a fairly entertaining watch for anyone familiar with the organization and its purpose. Kickstarter-funded with a budget of $23,000.

Such a wealth of SCP material out there that I'm surprised horror directors are concerned with making the next big sequel, but that's capitalism for ya.

rsmurphy wrote: Sun Jan 21, 2024 8:45 pm Such a wealth of SCP material out there that I'm surprised horror directors are concerned with making the next big sequel, but that's capitalism for ya.

Don't encourage them.

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Mon Jan 22, 2024 12:01 am Don't encourage them.

Point taken. I'm just not sure I can handle more installments of The Exorcist, Insidious, The Conjuring, Scream, Halloween, Saw, [insert franchise installment here], ad infinitum. Also, on a more selfish note, many of those SCP anomalies are disturbing on a whole nother level, and I'd love to see them play out on screen under the hands of a capable director.

rsmurphy wrote: Mon Jan 22, 2024 1:47 pm Also, on a more selfish note, many of those SCP anomalies are disturbing on a whole nother level, and I'd love to see them play out on screen under the hands of a capable director.

I really enjoy SCP but it's definitely at its best on a webpage, as a load of fragments, and I could only imagine it being A24'd to death on a big screen.

The Dark and the Wicked has become my comfort food horror movie. I watched it for the fourth or fifth time last night and will probably double that by autumn. It's weird because there are a scant handful of production choices which if I saw in a lesser movie would turn me off to it, but here I don't seem to mind. The performances are fantastic, deliberate pacing- it's creepy and menacing but not aggressively so - and I'm into the randomness of how/why this family is targeted. It's just a miserable slice of a family coming to terms with grief, guilt, and how a demonic horror exploits that dynamic. If you didn't care about the characters it wouldn't work and the movie would've came off as a failed genre experiment.

During the credits I was hoping to catch the title of a song played in the third act and came to know that Mars Williams and Nels Cline worked on the score.

For the meticulous viewer



Eye Catcher

I enjoyed Aberrance. I don't think I'd ever seen a Mongolian film before this. Hell, I don't think I've seen a modern day Mongolian cultural artifact of any kind, but I'll have to seek out more. Such an interesting country.

Anyway, I wasn't expecting much starting out (went in blind and hadn't read anything about it) but there ended up being a bit more depth to this than I expected after the first quarter or so. Some really pretty shots of snowy countryside, one of those films that feels like a dream all the way through.

Was searching for a short directed by Joel Anderson titled The Rotting Woman and came across this experimental and grotesque Japanese film directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita about turning into a zombie.