Last night I saw a screening of 1987's Psychos in Love. It's a horror comedy definitely leaning on comedy more. But it might be one of the funniest movies I've ever seen in my life. Vinegar Syndrome has a blu-ray/dvd, and I think it's on Amazon and Night Flight. Definitely check it out.

I stan Demián Rugna's Terrified. It has such a brilliant concept (multiple residential houses on the same block experiencing poltergeist activity!), good execution, high spook factor, and brutality - children in his movies just can't catch a break. I re-watched When Evil Lurks last week and didn't finish it. There are a lot of good things about it but it never put me on edge like Terrified. It's visually strong, disturbing, and gruesome, but for me wasn't creepy enough. And those brothers are the dumbest motherfuckers in the village. If there was any way for Pedro to make things worse he actively sought to make it so by completely ignoring the rules like, damn, dude, open your ears! Atención! I do plan on finishing the re-watch because I need to remind myself how it all gets resolved. I stopped it after he smashed his mom's phone after talking to his dead ex-wife. It was all too you're tearing me apart, lisa

Speaking of second chances a considerable amount of time has passed since I first watched The Void and Baskin. They came out around the same time, I was sufficiently hyped for both of 'em, but came away not too impressed. I liked both of them much better on second viewing, but their individual plotlines remain muddled or non-existent. That said, hella impressed with the gore, gloop, practical effects, and disturbing imagery in The Void, especially the creature at the end. It freaked me out. The reactions to these gloopy, skull-mutated, multi-tentacled cosmic horrors are too restrained tho. It'd be cool to see genuine losing-one's-shit reactions, to share in the character's loss of sanity and emotions on witnessing a thing so unspeakable instead of just watching them go through the motions.

First-time watcher. Why are the Dutch like this?

George Sluizer directed an American remake. I'm not sure if it has the same impact, but I'm curious about it just as I'm curious about the upcoming American remake of Speak No Evil.

rsmurphy wrote: Thu Feb 08, 2024 10:37 pm

One of the very best.

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Fri Feb 09, 2024 1:58 am One of the very best.

Yes.

The US remake, on the other hand, is distinguished by a) being made by the original director and yet b) often cited as being one of the worst remakes of all time. The wikipedia plot synopsis tells you all you need to know.

I saw, aged 17 and alone, the first fifteen minutes or so of Demons on satellite tv before feeling overwhelmed by the vibes and turning it off. For twenty years I presumed that the Italian horror thing was basically too sober and menacing for my taste. Two weeks ago I catch up to Demons on some streaming site and discover 17-year-old me switched it off about thirty seconds before it turns into one of the giddiest fuckwit movies of all time.

I watched Horror Express last week. Some old shite is just old shite.

Not really lesser-known, but I was bored last week and watched Jennifer's Body one night. I watched it because I heard it had been positively re-evaluated for some of its themes. I did like the ideas in it, but overall it just wasn't very good. Megan Fox is not a great lead actress, and the friendship with her (popular girl) and Amanda Seyfried (glasses-wearing bookworm) did not seem believable.

For appreciators of extreme filmmaking this German anthology featuring three tales should do the job.

zircona1 wrote: Fri Feb 09, 2024 1:15 pm Not really lesser-known, but I was bored last week and watched Jennifer's Body one night. I watched it because I heard it had been positively re-evaluated for some of its themes. I did like the ideas in it, but overall it just wasn't very good. Megan Fox is not a great lead actress, and the friendship with her (popular girl) and Amanda Seyfried (glasses-wearing bookworm) did not seem believable.

I rewatched this about a year or two ago and I liked it more than when it was new for sure. Still not amazing, but solid.

A dark comedy in which a grieving widower agrees to let a mentally unstable Texan with an ill-fitting wig and ridiculous accent cannibalize him. All of the comedy didn't land for me but the gruesome content sure did. Lots of wincing. Laughed a couple times.