Recent Viewings, Part 2

lester1/2jr · October 16, 2020, 01:15:09 PM

Man in the Orange Jacket (2014) - laid off worker sneaks into the bosses house and kills him. Too bad that house is haunted or something!

message = respect the negotiating process? or is it a warning against the intoxicating power of obscene wealth? from Latvia of all places 4.5/5

(slight spoiler: that said, I didn't need not one but TWO being-killed people reaching for a knife exactly one arms length away.)

on Tubi

RCMerchant · October 16, 2020, 01:41:34 PM

^ That looks good! I'll have to watch it!

lester1/2jr · October 16, 2020, 01:43:58 PM

It seems like Tubi is like the late night tv shows of yore, they buy whatevers cheapest and a lot of it is crap, but you can get a few movies that aare decent just unpopular

RCMerchant · October 16, 2020, 01:48:56 PM

It's all I watch lately!

lester1/2jr · October 17, 2020, 12:45:46 PM

me too

The Woman Who Wasn't There (2012) - Def my favorite documentary I've seen in a while. A woman makes up a harrowing 9/11 escape story AND a lost her husband on 9/11 story to become involved in a victim's support group. She ultimately takes over the whole group and becomes a media star.

She cares so much about the survivors that she pits them against each other for her own advancement. unbelievable but real. She didn't technically break any laws so she's still out there somewhere 5/5

RCMerchant · October 17, 2020, 12:56:34 PM

^ I seen that one. What a dirtball.

lester1/2jr · October 17, 2020, 01:12:33 PM

one review made the point that nowadays she probably would be found out a lot quicker. with twitter and "doxxing" and so forth.

RCMerchant · October 17, 2020, 03:08:16 PM

Maybe someday a large heavy piece of flaming concrete will fall on her head. That would be karma.

FatFreddysCat · October 17, 2020, 09:09:50 PM

"The Funhouse" (1981)
Four teens visit a run-down carnival and get locked inside the title attraction after closing time. If that didn't suck badly enough, it turns out that there's a homicidal, deformed something-or-other in there with them. Mayhem ensues.
Tobe "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" Hooper's stylish but ultimately pretty goofy horror flick seemed a lot scarier when I was twelve. Not only is it short on plot, but it takes for-EVER to get into gear.
The old fashioned funhouse animatronics and mechanical creatures are creepier than anything that happens in the actual movie. Sorry, Tobe.

Rev. Powell · October 18, 2020, 09:19:57 AM

WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE (2018): The Blackwoods--an ailing uncle and his two shy daughters--live in a manor overlooking a New England town, shunned by the townsfolk for a dark scandal in the past. Solid, straightforward adaptation of the twisted Shirley Jackson novel. On Netflix. 3.5/5

FatFreddysCat · October 18, 2020, 11:49:36 AM

"The Stepfather" (1987)
A teenage girl suspects there's something odd about her Mom's new husband, a seemingly too-perfect man who's obsessed with maintaining old fashioned "family values."
This tight low-budget suspense thriller (with a hint of slasher-flick nastiness) has a great cast that includes Terry O'Quinn ("Lost") as the psycho Dad, Shelley "Charlie's Angels" Hack as the unsuspecting Mom, and '80s scream queen Jill Schoelen as the troubled teen.
Loosely based on the real-life case of New Jersey murderer John List -- who killed his entire family in 1971, relocated to a different state under a new name, and started a new life with a new family. He was finally caught after seventeen years (!) thanks to TV's "America's Most Wanted."
Followed by two sequels (only one of which starred O'Quinn) and a 2009 remake.

Allhallowsday · October 18, 2020, 02:34:49 PM

Quote from: RCMerchant on October 17, 2020, 03:08:16 PM
Maybe someday a large heavy piece of flaming concrete will fall on her head. That would be karma.

I can't believe that made me laugh...

Whaddadumbiatch.

Allhallowsday · October 18, 2020, 02:43:03 PM

Quote from: Rev. Powell on October 18, 2020, 09:19:57 AM
WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE (2018): The Blackwoods--an ailing uncle and his two shy daughters--live in a manor overlooking a New England town, shunned by the townsfolk for a dark scandal in the past. Solid, straightforward adaptation of the twisted Shirley Jackson novel. On Netflix. 3.5/5

We Have Always Lived In The Castle is my favorite piece of SHIRLEY JACKSON's writing.

RCMerchant · October 18, 2020, 03:42:51 PM

How many Shirley Jackson film adaptions are there?

RCMerchant · October 18, 2020, 03:44:01 PM

Quote from: Allhallowsday on October 18, 2020, 02:43:03 PM
Quote from: Rev. Powell on October 18, 2020, 09:19:57 AM
WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE (2018): The Blackwoods--an ailing uncle and his two shy daughters--live in a manor overlooking a New England town, shunned by the townsfolk for a dark scandal in the past. Solid, straightforward adaptation of the twisted Shirley Jackson novel. On Netflix. 3.5/5

We Have Always Lived In The Castle is my favorite piece of SHIRLEY JACKSON's writing.

Mine is the Haunting of Hill House- because I read it when I was 10 years old. I still think this is the scariest novel I ever read in my life.