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beer_good_foamy) wrote2017-10-31 07:53 pm
beer_good_foamy) wrote2017-10-31 07:53 pm
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Horror october #31
So, what to watch on the night itself? It had to be a rewatch, I've done way too few of those this month, but what - classic, recent, well-known, obscure? I ended up going with a new-ish movie that feels like a classic, that has a nice little fan base but maybe hasn't got the mainstream splash it deserves.
Ti West's The House of the Devil was made in 2009, but you'd never know it. The look (shot on gloriously grainy 16mm while everyone else was going digital), the plot, the soundtrack, the pacing, even the opening credits feel like something filmed just before VCRs became a thing and everyone started churning out the same slasher movies over and over again. Yet it doesn't feel stale; West knows when to lean against the clichés, when to make us wait for them until our knuckles turn white, and when to run a kitchen knife through them.
Anyway, so Samantha is a student desperate for cash to move out of her crappy dorm, so she takes a babysitting job out in the country... in an old spooky house... owned by Tom Noonan and Mary Woronov... Which turns out to actually be a grandmother-sitting job... but she really needs the money and it's just one night. How bad can it be?
It's not the most action-packed movie in history, as West shows us he means business early on and then lets us wait a good long while, turning up the heat ever so slowly until he lets it all hang out in the finale. This is one spooky movie, and it does it all so effortlessly. I love it.
Anyway, I hope people haven't been too bored by this series of posts, and happy halloween to you all!
Ti West's The House of the Devil was made in 2009, but you'd never know it. The look (shot on gloriously grainy 16mm while everyone else was going digital), the plot, the soundtrack, the pacing, even the opening credits feel like something filmed just before VCRs became a thing and everyone started churning out the same slasher movies over and over again. Yet it doesn't feel stale; West knows when to lean against the clichés, when to make us wait for them until our knuckles turn white, and when to run a kitchen knife through them.
Anyway, so Samantha is a student desperate for cash to move out of her crappy dorm, so she takes a babysitting job out in the country... in an old spooky house... owned by Tom Noonan and Mary Woronov... Which turns out to actually be a grandmother-sitting job... but she really needs the money and it's just one night. How bad can it be?
It's not the most action-packed movie in history, as West shows us he means business early on and then lets us wait a good long while, turning up the heat ever so slowly until he lets it all hang out in the finale. This is one spooky movie, and it does it all so effortlessly. I love it.
Anyway, I hope people haven't been too bored by this series of posts, and happy halloween to you all!
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(Also I sent you mail, in case you've changed addresses or it got caught in your spam filter.)
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Begotten is a new one to me, but it sounds... good? Evil? Well, like I must watch it, anyway.
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Almost make me want to list top ten favorite horror flicks. ;-)
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I do want to do some horror-related top ten lists. I'd love to see yours too!
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The only difficulty I have with doing a list...is some horror is scary and some is just fun. (I tend to like the fun better, because no nightmares, but the scary sticks with me longer and is often more haunting. But I can't rewatch it, well with few exceptions.)
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So thank you! I hope you had a good time with it. And congrats on finishing all the way to the end!
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Hope you're doing well!