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did anybody watch "Cherry Falls" last night? Shite. I thought that it might have been quite interesting, perhaps an attack on the traditional conservative morality of the slasher..but...cue wig wearing transvestite pyscho killer and "sins of the father" style motivation. And, even though it was billed as 'horror', eagle eyed viewers probably noticed that there was less violence/gore than your average Eastenders omnibus that features an incident at Angie's Den.
However, I also watched the two "must-see" scenes from Irreversible - the fire extinguisher and the rape, and I would aagree with other voices from TMO that the 'fire extinguisher' is one of the most disturbing things that I've seen in a film. It'll haunt me forever, I reckon.
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Does anyone know a good film about witches? I'm not so up on movies but I would like to watch something about witches right now.
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Depends what sort of thing you're after, statist. If you want nubile teens, try The Craft, if you want religious persecution try The Devils or even The Crucible (link is the most recent film version).
Or you could just give up and watch Charmed.
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Jacques Tourneur's Night of the Demon may not have witches but it does feature some pretty excellent witchcraft, while Tourneur and Val Lewton's I Walked With a Zombie is more voodoo than witchcraft - but is bewitchingly atmospheric.
Of course, if you want poorly-dubbed ultraviolent Italian witches there's always Suspiria which has to rival Texas Chainsaw Massacre in the Best Death of a Disabled Character stakes. And, for a flawed realisation of a great Nigel 'Quatermass' Kneale script there's the (understandably) underrated Halloween III: Season of the Witch.
Non-horror fans may know this b-movie gem from the irritating refrain:
quote:Three more days to Halloween Halloween, Halloween Three more days to Halloween Sil-ver Shamrock.
which has the malign, even satanic power to remain in your head all day long after reading it in a tmo post.
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...alone with the baby on Thursday night. Any recommendations for recent nightmarish horror I could rent from the local Blockbuster? We now have a dvd player and everything.
I checked their range the other day and am tempted by either Dans Ma Peau or Switchblade Romance. There's also Michael Haneke's grim-sounding Time of the Wolf at Harrogate Library.
Which would you go for or are there others you'd recommend seeing first?
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i'm off to see house of wax in a bit. it has paris hilton in. a slasher flick i think. the thought of watching miss hilton sliced to bits makes me happy. i love that girl.
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switchbalde romance is irritating. Sorry, but there it is. It's got some good gore, but a seriously lame ending that has the power to ruin the film. The violence is excellent though - my personal favourite being somebody getting beaten to death by a pole wrapped in barbed wire.
Dans Ma Peu is a better film. A bit more obvously French in subject - very existential and ponderous. Still, it's nasty as hell in places, often the bits you don't see but hear are the most stomach churning. The leading lady who embarks on a journey of 'self discovery' is good, and there are even a couple of laughs to be had, albeit, grim ones.
Haute Tension made me angry, Dans Ma Peu made me wince.
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Cheers, Bennerz. Your recommendation seems sound, but your description of the violence in HT does, unfortunately, constitute a serious enticement.
I don't know, what with these pictures and the whole fire extinguisher thing, what's up with the French, eh?
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I think it's to do with the reputation they (used to) have for pushing back the boundaries of cinema. The easiest, most obvious, most creatively bankrupt way of doing this is to make something that's more violent that other things which have also been made. Although to be fair, I haven't seen Switchblade Romance or Dans ma Peau. But I have seen Irreversible and that was pretty shitty.
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quote:Haute Tension made me angry, Dans Ma Peu made me wince.
The reasoning behind the decision by the makers of the movie to shoot the ending that they did, is one of the most baffling mysteries in film......
I loved Haute Tension from the very start:
Great atmosphere - the traditional "dodgy" acting as seen in most movies of this genre tempered somewhat by the French-with-subtitles - and, once it got going, wave upon wave of relentless tension, punctuated with genuinely wince-inducing and stomach-turning violence right up to the incredibly bloody, nerve-shredding, power-tool-wielding finale.
and then:
The director/writer rewards your attention to the film by taking an enormous shit in your face.
The ending is awful, stupid, completely unnecessary and to swallow it would require pushing any sane persons "suspension of disbelief" way beyond breaking point.
Ben; I advise you watch it, enjoy it, choke down any bile that gathers in your throat at the climax and afterwards, forget about the ending entirely.
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the newspaper listings were wrong! house of wax wasn't on. so i watched mr. and mrs. smith instead. was surprised to find it stylish, funny, and very violent. brad pitt and angelina jolie are great together and there's support from vince vaughn doing his schtick and seth cohen too, o.c. fans.
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ss is right that it's not a bad film up to the end, but you can't really forgive anybody for it. I don't want to say any more, and it's not like you'll be suprised, but it is the most stupid and illogical ending, ever. Including every ending of a Friday 13th or Nightmare on Elm Street film.
It has some good nasty moments, and the atmosphere is pretty 'tense' throughout the first half, but I don't see how you can look back at any of this fondly after watching the whole film.
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Someone on this board very kindly gave me and a friend some free tickets to Switchblade Romance (I think it was Fish!). Not a film I would normally watch being a complete girl when it comes to horror films, especially horror films that don't involve supernatural or made up characters and therefore could actually happen. Anyway it was very gorey, very gruesome and very bloody. Unfortunately it was COMPLETEDLY ruined by the "twist" in the tale which didn't even make sense. It did give me nightmares for weeks after tho.
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Froopy - something that's been bothering me a while. Your sig says that there are 10 kinds of people who know about binary, then goes on to describe two kinds. Isn't two in binary 11, or is that the joke?
quote:Originally posted by herbs: Your sig says that there are 10 kinds of people who know about binary, then goes on to describe two kinds. Isn't two in binary 11, or is that the joke?
Nice one!
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It's probably time for me to change the signature in fact. But because you asked, it'a all about having fun in base 2. Which is actually not all that easy for me, having secured myself an American liberal arts degree for which the usual career path is along the lines of pizza delivery or radio broadcasting.
So, here's a lesson in Binary As I Understand It™: Binary is base 2, right? So each digit represents a exponential value for the number 2, beginning with the digit on the far right:
0001 = 2 to the power of 0, or 1. 0010 = 2 to the power of 1, or 2. 0100 = 2 to the power of 2, or 4.
I'm going to wager that (a) I'm getting this completely wrong and (b) I'm not making any sense anyway. But anywho, that's the joke. 10 in base 2 = 2 in base 10.
Must. find. better. signature.
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You are right (as you well know). 011 = 3, being a 2 plus a 1.
111=7, being 4+2+1. 101=5, being 4+0+1 etc etc.
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I'm going to wager that (a) I'm getting this completely wrong
Not completely wrong. 2/3. The second one, 1101 = 8 + 4 + 0 + 1 = 13.
But congratulations H1ppychick -- now you are part of the binary elite. The group that does understand.
There are 10 types of people: those that understand trinary, those that don't, and those that have never heard of it. Or maybe the third type is actually a subtype of the second. Meaning there are only 2 types of people after all. God.
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