My Week in Movies: October 18 - 24
Oct. 25th, 2020 02:47 pmFinished The Good Place Season 4. I think I expected more of an impact out of it, given how other people responded to it. I still liked it a lot, but it didn't really eff me up or anything.
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sol_se and I have handily met our 31 spooky movies in 31 days goal for October. Everything after this is gravy.
Movies I've seen before are in italics
Masque of the Red Death (1964)
It's Alive (1974)
Evil Dead (2013)
Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979)
The Blob (1958)
Beware! The Blob (1972)
Fall of the House of Usher (1960)
Suspiria (2018)
Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
As you can see, I'm startingsol_se on the Corman/Price Poe movies. We'll see if we can work through the rest before Halloween. These were very formative for me. Of the three we watched, I think we both agree that Pit and the Pendulum is the most enjoyable. This is one of the very first horror movies my mother ever showed me, incidentally.
I really like It's Alive, but man, they needed to replace their sound guy. So much dialogue was unintelligible or too quiet. Still, it's very effective for being a killer mutant baby movie.
I didn't know what to expect out of the Evil Dead remake. I knew there wasn't going to be an Ash character (although there kinda-sorta was). I didn't agree with all the choices made, but overall it was pretty good. It's certainly the most disgusting film I've seen in a while.
A quibble: Criterion Channel listed the Nosferatu remake as Nosferatu the Vampyre, but then showed Nosferatu Phantom der Nacht. These are two different movies! Not substantially different, but the film was shot in separate English and German versions, so there are subtle differences between the two. I don't have a preference one over the other, but I did tell sol_se we were getting the English version before, lo and behold, German. In either version, this is a very ponderous movie and I don't necessarily mean that in a bad way. It's incredibly deliberate and takes its time saying what it wants to say.
The Blob remains a very workmanlike movie about killer jello. It doesn't add a lot of flair, but it knows what it's about and gets the job done. The same cannot be said for its execrable sequel Beware! The Blob (directed by Larry Hagman(!)). This was mostly a series of loosely connected unfunny sketches that all ended with someone getting eaten by the blob. I kept getting thrown off by the male protagonist, played by Robert Walker Jr, who may be better known as Charlie X from the Star Trek episode.
I do not know if I liked the Suspiria remake. I can definitely say I did not understand it.
Voted on Thursday! If you're an American citizen and you haven't already voted, do so. Make a plan to vote. Go to IWillVote.com. Nothing is more critical than this moment.
Oh, also,
sol_se and I have handily met our 31 spooky movies in 31 days goal for October. Everything after this is gravy.Movies I've seen before are in italics
Masque of the Red Death (1964)
It's Alive (1974)
Evil Dead (2013)
Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979)
The Blob (1958)
Beware! The Blob (1972)
Fall of the House of Usher (1960)
Suspiria (2018)
Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
As you can see, I'm starting
sol_se on the Corman/Price Poe movies. We'll see if we can work through the rest before Halloween. These were very formative for me. Of the three we watched, I think we both agree that Pit and the Pendulum is the most enjoyable. This is one of the very first horror movies my mother ever showed me, incidentally.I really like It's Alive, but man, they needed to replace their sound guy. So much dialogue was unintelligible or too quiet. Still, it's very effective for being a killer mutant baby movie.
I didn't know what to expect out of the Evil Dead remake. I knew there wasn't going to be an Ash character (although there kinda-sorta was). I didn't agree with all the choices made, but overall it was pretty good. It's certainly the most disgusting film I've seen in a while.
A quibble: Criterion Channel listed the Nosferatu remake as Nosferatu the Vampyre, but then showed Nosferatu Phantom der Nacht. These are two different movies! Not substantially different, but the film was shot in separate English and German versions, so there are subtle differences between the two. I don't have a preference one over the other, but I did tell sol_se we were getting the English version before, lo and behold, German. In either version, this is a very ponderous movie and I don't necessarily mean that in a bad way. It's incredibly deliberate and takes its time saying what it wants to say.
The Blob remains a very workmanlike movie about killer jello. It doesn't add a lot of flair, but it knows what it's about and gets the job done. The same cannot be said for its execrable sequel Beware! The Blob (directed by Larry Hagman(!)). This was mostly a series of loosely connected unfunny sketches that all ended with someone getting eaten by the blob. I kept getting thrown off by the male protagonist, played by Robert Walker Jr, who may be better known as Charlie X from the Star Trek episode.
I do not know if I liked the Suspiria remake. I can definitely say I did not understand it.
