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Shocktoberfest 2019 Update #5
Week off from work - Yay Fall Break! Obviously, I spent plenty of time watching films this week. There are some new films, some old favorites and also three movies that I consider to be modern stand outs in the horror genre. |
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33) Little Monsters 2019 First Viewing! Horror Rom-Coms can be hit or miss. Outside of a dynamic performance by Lupita Nyong'o and some of the child actors, Little Monsters did not offer much. The fallacious perspective that dynamic, together and powerful women will always settle for the schulb who spends his narcissistic life unemployable, smoking dope and wearing clothes that look like he slept in them is highly problematic to this viewer.
34) Draug 2018 First Viewing! Mildly interesting Swedish film about about a search party looking for a missing missionary in a haunted woods. It earns extra points for being set in a unique time and place.
35) The Dunwich Horror 1970 A movie from my past, American International Pictures set director Daniel Haller's second H.P. Lovecraft inspired film. Haller is responsible for the look of Roger Corman's Edgar Allen Poe movies. Re watching this as an adult, I realized that I never gave it the credit it deserves for being a very dark film about outsider families and communities that cast them out. Fan video of Electric Wizard song provided for perspective and not to endorse Satanism, drugs and murder.
36) Crimes of Passion 1984 Another Ken Russell film revisited! A spiritual sequel to Hitchcock's Psycho, Anthony Perkins plays another, gender confused, voyeuristic odd ball who likes to spy on the ladies before stabbing them to death. But with singing this time!
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| Debbie Harry in Videodrome |
37) Videodrome 1983 I have been spending an awful lot of time lately with my brother from another mother in the north, David Cronenberg! Any genre fan with interest in the giants of horror should have at least a passing acquaintance with his name and films. Even though technology has evolved differently, Videodrome predicted with uncanny accuracy the media obsessed 21st century. I first saw this movie in 1983 (at the Sandusky Mall, of course) and have watched it many times. It gets creepier and more frightening every time. Long live the new flesh!
38) Kyrsyä: Tuftland 2018 First Viewing! -Finnish movie where "A headstrong textile student tries to overcome her problems by accepting a summer job offer from an isolated and offbeat village of Kyrsyä." - IMDB Chaos ensues.
39) Climax 2018 Fulfilling the promise the initial view, I had several friends over for dinner and a movie to watch it again. I forget that not all my friends have the same tolerance for cinematic adventures like the ones Climax offers. Filmmaker Gaspar Noé ever reminds the viewers that they are watching a movie that at times becomes a movie the characters are watching, featuring the other characters making their own movies. Roll credits.
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| Prevenge |
40) Prevenge 2016 Another from my list of great horror films of the 2010s, I wonder how much feminist, psychoanalytical film analysis on this film exists out there? There should be tons! Alice Lowe's Ruth, a very pregnant avenging angel, goes on a massive revenge killing spree fueled by the urging of her unborn daughter. Dark, funny, unusual, I hope Ms Lowe has lots more for us!
41) Hereditary 2018 Watched this after Climax with probably the only friend I have left who will watch horror movies with me. Ari Aster's debut feature film takes the viewer to a cold, lonely and very scare place and just leaves them there. Credited as being a family drama that becomes a horror film, on repeated watches, one can see the multiple clues that point to the terrifying and disorientating final act. This is not the movie to get one excited about the post-Halloween holiday season.
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| Hereditary |
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