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Started by Rev. Powell, April 25, 2020, 12:17:49 PM

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zombie no.one

#270
in other news a couple of days ago I got the Arrow bluray release of THE CAR (1977)



love 70s horror / disaster type stuff, but this was soooo corny and cheesy. still enjoyed it, but yeah this being mentioned in the same sentence as JAWS and DUEL (which the blurb on the inlay does) is a reach into infinity. I thought it might be a little darker (especially considering Anton LaVey was a consultant (...erm what?))

there's a scene where some random character shouts, for no reason, "CAT POOOO"! I rewound that bit and stuck subtitles on to see if I'd heard it right... on subtitles it came up as "TADPOLE"...which makes an equal lack of sense? but she clearly doesn't say "Tadpole", it's "Cat Pooo". no idea

M.10rda

Was she about to clean a litter box? That's a commonly heard rallying cry around my three-feline house...

I watched a B+W film from 1956 yesterday and indeed, it took me a while to get into it. Part of that was the leisurely pacing and part of it was that it was just a more or less pedestrian-looking movie in B+W for a while but then after the plot got going the DP clearly got more inspired and the texture of certain shots, the large spooky close-ups, the dilapidated setting... it all started registering as "ERASERHEAD-like" to me and suddenly I was in love. The film has very little in common w/ ERASERHEAD (except maybe mental illness and living in squalor) yet my pivotal early experience w/ ERASERHEAD runs so deep in me that it just becomes a reference point for many B+W films w/ moody cinematography. I had the same experience w/ the Korean film THE HOUSEKEEPER last summer. (That one did have a little more in common w/ a David Lynch film, though.)

zombie no.one

#272
I think the reason it took me so long to see ERASERHEAD is because of the b/w...

Quote from: M.10rda on December 08, 2024, 09:57:17 AMWas she about to clean a litter box? That's a commonly heard rallying cry around my three-feline house...

she was shouting it at 'the car'... maybe it was some kind of obscure protest against catalytic converters. radical!

edit - the scene's been youtube-ized
https://youtu.be/0uL9bcr-4nw?si=IAJNZMGW8jmKjfRh

bob

#273
The Kid Criterion Collection - this has the 1972 rerelease version of the film, 53 minutes
The Kid (2 Disc Special Edition) [DVD] - this has the original version of the film from 1921, 68 minutes
To Sleep with Anger Criterion Collection
Ringu
Belzebuth bluray
Thelma & Louise Criterion Collection bluray
The Fog bluray
Superman 4 bluray
Hobgoblins bluray
The Babe Ruth Story
JFK: Director's Cut
The Craine Mutiny bluray
Deadpool & Wolverine bluray
Naked Gun Trilogy Collection
Beetlejuice bluray
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice bluray
Ghostbusters 2 bluray
Red Sparrow bluray
Zodiac bluray
Freaks / The Unknown / The Mystic: Tod Browning's Sideshow Shockers Criterion Collection
ESPN Films 30 for 30: Bo Jackson
Alien: Romulus bluray
Hidden Figures bluray
Saw 7 bluray
Back to the Future: Ultimate Trilogy bluray
Kubrick, Nolan, Tarantino, Wan, Iñárritu, Scorsese, Chaplin, Abrams, Wes Anderson, Gilliam, Kurosawa, Villeneuve - the elite



I believe in the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

zombie no.one

#274
picked up SMILE 2 blu ray, released monday.

it's just occured to me this is the first time that I have ever actively waited for a new release horror movie to come out, then gone to purchase it asap. I mean, it might be disappointing, but one of my bros got me the first SMILE for xmas and it actually disturbed me

I eagerly waited for old horrors like MUTILATOR and HOSPITAL MASSACRE to come out on bluray and was aware of release dates, but never a new one.

while I was buying it the assistant said have you seen X? he raved about it a bit so I bought that as well. there's also a prequel and a sequel to it


zombie no.one

Quote from: bob on January 10, 2025, 07:28:25 PMNaked Gun Trilogy Collection


love the director commentary tracks on these..  if your version has them. although they really skirt around talking about OJ much!

bob

Kubrick, Nolan, Tarantino, Wan, Iñárritu, Scorsese, Chaplin, Abrams, Wes Anderson, Gilliam, Kurosawa, Villeneuve - the elite



I believe in the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

Rev. Powell

I'll take you places the hand of man has not yet set foot...

bob

Kubrick, Nolan, Tarantino, Wan, Iñárritu, Scorsese, Chaplin, Abrams, Wes Anderson, Gilliam, Kurosawa, Villeneuve - the elite



I believe in the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.