rsmurphy wrote: Tue Oct 28, 2025 10:30 pm The CGI in Welcome to Derry is such a bummer.

Thanks for confirming my bias there (the bias: prequels almost always suck)

Watched Psycho Beach Party (2000), which hits a lot of the same tonal beats as a John Waters / But I’m a Cheerleader type situation. Fun, campy, forgettable.

Also rewatched It Follows. Every time I do, I get more convinced it’s a real masterpiece. The first time I watched it, I thought the 3rd act reference to 8 Mile / the state of Detroit was a little non sequitur but still welcome. Now I see that it’s woven through the whole thing.

This short mockumentary about a disease which turns tissue into metal behooves me to finally watch Tetsuo: The Iron Man.

Oh, age restricted. Boo!

I very much want to like It: Welcome to Derry but it's a bit of a chore. Doesn't keep me from watching it, though. Last episode nearly got me. I first found out about Leucochloridium Paradoxum, the parasite worm that in a horrifying cycle of events infects snails virtually turning them into zombies a couple of years ago. So freaky. It icks me out. Suffice it to say that the Muschiettis came for me in the last episode by turning mean girl Marge's eyes into the freaky zombified eye stalks of an infected snail. If only they used practical effects I would have been a mess - still curled up in a ball tho - it was freaky

Last night I watched A Desert co-starring David Yow with Ty Segall handling the score. It now behooves me to rank the Yow horror movies I've seen.

A Spoonful of Sugar
A Desert
Southbound

There haven't been many but I always enjoy his turn in every movie I've seen.

Saw Slime City, from 1988, but it was mostly just trashy, not a lot of imagination on display. Some good laughs.

Is Keeper worth seeing? I like Perkins just fine, though I think his best work is likely ahead.

i watched frankenstein twice this weekend,

Saw Poison For the Fairies, it's great.

major wrote: Mon Oct 13, 2025 11:03 am Possession (1981)

I think I watched it during lockdown, or at least some of it. Watched it at the bar for movie night last week. Pretty fucked up!

I have been meaning to watch this one for years and years. Xmas project!

Saw Alucarda and it was great satanic fun.