Halloween Horror Binge

Victim of The Night

23 hours ago

Originally Posted by stillmellow

Meshes of the Afternoon includes a woman with complex thoughts and feelings. In many parts of the world that would make her a Witch.

Hahaha! You are not wrong.

Wooley

Victim of The Night

23 hours ago

Originally Posted by Robert the List

Day of Wrath has at least one witch (and is a stone cold brilliant film, in my top 5 all time).
Kuroneko has 2 witches/ghosts.
Meshes of the Afternoon has a mysterious human-like figure with glass for a face.
Le Bonheur and the Bresson films, no. Although Bonheur is definitely horror imo, even if you don't realise it until right at the end.

By total coincidence, I'm watching Le Bonheur tonight.
Kuroneko I've always thought of as a Horror movie.

Takoma11

Registered User

23 hours ago

Originally Posted by Wooley

By total coincidence, I'm watching Le Bonheur tonight.

It's so good and so upsetting. It put me permanently on team Varda.

Robert the List

Registered User

13 hours ago

The Lighthouse as well.
Monsters, mermaids, evil birds, magic powers emanating from a mysterious source.

Wooley

Victim of The Night

12 hours ago

Originally Posted by Takoma11

LOL.
Le Bonheur is like . . . social horror? I'm not sure how to explain it without getting into wild spoiler territory.

Watched Le Bonheur last night and I get what y'all mean. I would never ever call it a Horror movie in the classical sense but by the end it does kinda feel like a Polanski or something, maybe even like a Stepford Wives, I dunno.
It's only my second Varda and I didn't like this one as much as Cleo (which was an instant favorite) but it was like the good type of refrigerator-moment movie. Meaning that the more I thought about it after it was done the more it felt like the film, which is so bright and bucolic and charming so much of the time, was actually kind of disturbing the whole time.
I actually wondered, during the phenomenal love-making scene (which I would instantly put among the best I've seen), "Is this just how the French are? Is everybody just so cool with extra-marital affairs that they can just talk openly about them while they're in the middle of them and ostensibly be in love with two people but it's actually fine cuz they're French?" And Therese's initial reaction really sold me that, "Wow, the French sure are different."
And then...

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