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Oh. No no I meant the original Japanese one by Takashi Miike. I'm not really interested in the American version. Sorry for the confusion. The Miike one has some good suspense and imagery and tension. It kind of wore off a bit so I think I was too generous with my praise earlier although I still think it's a great film. I'd still recommend it, if you're into suspenseful films, anyway.

After I finish the non-horror film I'm watching, which I plan to do tonight, I thought I'd watch an episode of Monsters on Tubi. It's a horror anthology show like Twilight Zone except more creature feature than Cold War sci-fi. I know Twilight Zone isn't the only show like it out there. It's just that's the best example I have. It's this:

I've watched three or four episodes and it's great. I didn't know it existed until recently. I need to watch it more. The show is certainly captivating.

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Not trying to be snarky or even just provocative but I guarantee you I'll watch Goes To Hell again before I watch The Final Chapter again.

Sounds good to me!

Edit - I feel like I may have watched that back in the day.

When I went looking for a physical copy of One Missed Call before I knew Tubi had it, I found out the Japanese version is actually part of a trilogy, although Miike only did the first one. Without stating why, the first one, apparently, tells a story that works on its own, although I'm rather curious how they continued the story. Whether I check out the sequels or not I have yet to decide, though it's something to consider. Who knows? They might be good films. It's hard to say without seeing them.

Edit: Re; edit: Monsters you mean? I was too young to see it when it came out vis my birth year is near its start year, and not because I was seven when it aired, so it's cool I can go back and see it now. Monsters is a neat show.

Yes, Monsters, I was a teenager.

Yeah, I forgot about The Neon Demon when I wrote that. His colors though makes me think something Argento. Maybe Inferno. Maybe in the spirit of John Waters' line, "they should stop re-making good movies and should start re-making bad movies," I'd say I'd be curious on Refn re-making Mother of Tears - a movie I admittedly have never seen, but by all reputations is quite bad.


That would be my suggestion.

Oh cool. Yeah I've liked it so far. It's on Freeve on Amazon, and on Tubi. So it requires sitting through adverts to watch it for free which is fine by me. I grew up in the 90s so I can handle commercials. Are TV shows okay in this thread? For a while that's all I could focus on watching until a few days ago. I can look for a horror movie once I finish the non-horror I'm currently watching if I broke a rule.

Well, I also think that someone who really understands and cares about a movie should maybe remake it before someone who doesn't does.
And that's why I would want to have a studio that remade good low-budget films from a long time ago in a caring and thoughtful and sort of preserving way before Michael Bay's studio turns them into another Friday the 13th remake.

Also, Mother Of Tears was so bad that I can't tell if it ever should be remade.

A woman named Arletty drives into a small coastal town looking for her father, a famous artist. The people seem strange right away and she has disconcerting feelings as she reads her father's journal about the strange goings on and how he feels he's changing. Things take an even stranger turn when a sophisticated lothario and his two girl friends introduce themselves into her life. And stranger still and more deadly as the moon starts to turn red.

Man, I just love this little movie.
I love the opening scene, pre-credits. That’s what hooked me the first time - well, actually the first time I couldn’t believe I was gonna watch an old movie this grainy with this low a budget - but it looks so good...


and then when the razor comes out... I was in.
Still this movie could have lost me after that. But I just love the feel so much. I don’t know how this movie managed to tap so deeply into my brain but it really is kinda like, if I had $80,000 and was trying to make a Horror movie, what I would hope I put on the screen. The blues, the reds, the set design, the surrealist vibe while still very much grounded in reality all without losing that chilling sense of dread…


And if it just had that, that would be enough for me for this to at least be a pleasing oddity… but it also has the grocery-store scene...


... and the theater scene...


.... which I have come to think of as two of my Hundred Favorite Scenes In Horror.
I mean, how do you fill a brightly lit supermarket with dread? Ask Laura, there. Anitra Ford, really sold me on her fear and that sells the scene, along with the starkness of it and the music.
And man, my heart kinda broke a little bit for Toni. The movie does a good job with these characters, maybe Arletty the least but she's still good enough, especially later in the movie, but man, I had really come to feel for poor little Toni, just a wastrel, "just a kid" as Laura said the last time they ever saw each other... I really felt for the kid. I think Joy Bang as Toni was the best casting in the movie.
But it doesn't end there. Really the big drive of the movie starts with the theater scene and then you have that tragic yet dreadful scene in the doorway of the closed store with the girl begging for help. And then things really get crazy.


If the movie has any negatives it's that, like Byzantium, it has narration that probably isn't necessary and is a bit of a distraction. It works ok here because the movie starts and ends setting up the fact that she is telling this story but I just think that what was on-screen spoke for itself and it would have felt tighter if more surreal without it.

Every time I get ready to watch this movie I worry that this time it's gonna fall short for me. And every time it gets better. This has become one of my favorite Horror movies, period.


Post-script - My friends who hated Lemora and Viy and fell asleep in Carnival Of Souls... loved Messiah Of Evil. Loved it, they say. I'm so happy.

What really makes Ghostwatch work for me is how willing it is to be patient and let things build. There are very realistic breaks in tension, and it keeps so much of the horror in the realistic realm where you can still imagine someone being skeptical.

It's interesting, because I think that for me (and I know I'm repeating myself a bit), what I consider brutality or cruelty really comes down to suffering, fear, and pain. And from the kills I can remember (aside from the ranger), I feel like those elements were only present in very short periods of time. Punching an already dead body might be gory or gross, but in my mind it doesn't qualify as brutality.

What he did to the Ranger certainly does. In spades.

Absolutely. And to me, that sequence stands out against all of the other kills specifically because the pain and the fear seem to actually be the point. It's a kill that feels personal and malicious, something that isn't true of the other deaths.

So how ya like that Messiah Of Evil? Eh? Eh?

Silly ape-monster did not know who he was f---in' wit'.

And one of the best Halloween cartoons... Of All Time!!!

It's excellent.

I'd actually like to revisit this one soon, hopefully watching with someone else. I've had that viewing where I take things in on my own. Now I'd like that viewing where you talk things over the whole time while watching it.

Last night was trick-or-treating at the school.

Highlights:

1. I figured out how to make a dial that turned on the robot costume. I pretended it was my volume control and the kids were dying of laughter making me louder or quiet. One group walked away and a princess pointed at me and said, "THAT was a VERY SILLY robot."

2. At one point a little boy in a Darth Vader outfit came up and I said, "Ah, a fellow with a control panel! Yours is nicer than mine, though." And he did this sigh and went, "Yeah, at this point I'm more machine than man." (!!!!!!)

3. A child whose name I have heard mentioned many times came up to me and was like "A ROBOT!!!!!" and immediately just LAID SIEGE to my costume and just ripped the turning dial right off. His dad was mortified. I was like, "It's fine." (I mean, it was literally a laundry detergent lid glued to some cardboard). Anyway, now I know why this kid has his reputation! I'm sure he will be mine in 4 years.

4. This little girl came up with the most realistic effects I have ever seen on a child's costume in my life! They were these fake bullet wounds and they looked so real! When she went to the next teacher down the line the teacher went "AHHHH!".

Well, look what showed up in today's mail....

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Is that like vintage or reissue?