Movies. (help?)
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Alright. Blockbuster's movie selection sucks. I knew that.
I am craving a movie. A movie which I have not seen recently (letting out, say, The Shining or Sweeney Todd); which I don't own (since if I do, I've seen it enough that it does not suit my current craving, and letting out Sleepy Hollow, Nightmare Before Christmas, Sixth Sense, or Return of the Living Dead); which does not portray the world and all in it as fundamentally horrible and senseless (eliminating Series 7); and which has some definite element of the supernatural (removing Quills or any of the Scream movies).
(The movies I've mentioned aren't bad choices. They just don't fit for one particular reason or another. But they are pretty close to what I'm looking for.)
A movie which is either creepy or pleasantly spooky, and remains smart enough throughout that I do not want to tell the protagonists or the laws of the movie universe that they're being idiots. (I do have some tolerance for horror movie convention and for people making mistakes or being careless; just, please, come on, a *little* caution where there's a call for it?)
Suggestions? I was thinking Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula[1], and may go in search of it if I hear nothing better.
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[1] I've actually never seen it. Something about the one night it was playing at the theatre by the Swiss boarding school being one of the nights I got a detention for staying up too late reading.
Alright. Blockbuster's movie selection sucks. I knew that.
I am craving a movie. A movie which I have not seen recently (letting out, say, The Shining or Sweeney Todd); which I don't own (since if I do, I've seen it enough that it does not suit my current craving, and letting out Sleepy Hollow, Nightmare Before Christmas, Sixth Sense, or Return of the Living Dead); which does not portray the world and all in it as fundamentally horrible and senseless (eliminating Series 7); and which has some definite element of the supernatural (removing Quills or any of the Scream movies).
(The movies I've mentioned aren't bad choices. They just don't fit for one particular reason or another. But they are pretty close to what I'm looking for.)
A movie which is either creepy or pleasantly spooky, and remains smart enough throughout that I do not want to tell the protagonists or the laws of the movie universe that they're being idiots. (I do have some tolerance for horror movie convention and for people making mistakes or being careless; just, please, come on, a *little* caution where there's a call for it?)
Suggestions? I was thinking Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula[1], and may go in search of it if I hear nothing better.
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[1] I've actually never seen it. Something about the one night it was playing at the theatre by the Swiss boarding school being one of the nights I got a detention for staying up too late reading.
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Date: 2007-12-23 09:09 pm (UTC)Also, though I'm fairly certain you've seen it, just to be safe theres this CoC movie (http://www.cthulhulives.org/cocmovie/)...
And just to throw some others out on the off chance you've missed them:
Jacob's Ladder (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099871/)
In the Mouth of Madness (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113409/)
Hellraiser (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093177/)
Angelheart (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092563/)
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Date: 2007-12-23 09:14 pm (UTC)Angelheart was completely unknown to me, and looks interesting. Thanks for the heads-up.
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Date: 2007-12-23 09:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-12-23 10:30 pm (UTC)Read The Talented Mr. Ripley; it's good, and I haven't seen it recently, but I need a fix of the uncanny.
Wicker Park--supernatural? *is unsure*
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Date: 2007-12-25 03:26 am (UTC)Hm, how about The Last Man on Earth (1964)?
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Date: 2007-12-23 09:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-12-23 10:28 pm (UTC)Nightmare on Elm Street, maybe. Freddy Kruegar[1] has a certain grand iconic style, and the movie setup gives him room to be creepy and funny. I've seen tehm all, but not *really* recently...
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[1] Holy hell, he's the first hit on a Google for "Freddy". I approve.
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Date: 2007-12-24 01:50 am (UTC)They recently came out with a new edition of Halloween, and Mike Myers is creepy enough to qualify as supernatural. Also Jeepers Creepers, though I personally found it a bit low-budget and hokey to really manage to be creepy.
[1] See also: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Hills Have Eyes, though neither of those strictly fit the 'Supernatural' category either.
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Date: 2007-12-24 05:31 am (UTC)The world isn't horrible and senseless, in the way I meant. The specific situation people are in is horrible, but the Friday the 13th stuff absolutely screams the existence of a fundamental moral framework to the universe. People who do bad things die. People who had bad things done to them are out for revenge. It's not always fair, but it's absolutely sensical.
It's the movies that portray the world as a whole as morally empty that I'm talking about. You get that in Series 7; the idea that much as individual people might care, the world as a whole doesn't, and the movie conveys a generally-taken-for-granted attitude that it's very nice people are having these little social engagements but please don't be late to queue up for the meatgrinder, since we're *all* ending up in the meatgrinder. Metaphysically speaking.
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Date: 2007-12-24 05:33 am (UTC)I mean, *really really* strictly speaking, Night of the Living Dead is scifi. But speaking that strictly does kind of miss the essence of it. ;)
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Date: 2007-12-24 01:50 am (UTC)The sequels got less and less serious about themselves. I still liked them, but certainly not what you're looking for.
...But then, you own Child's Play, so.
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Date: 2007-12-24 05:36 am (UTC)Ended up going with Dracula. Good god, that movie is... lush. Melodramatic, yes, melodramatic is a good word, but it does not *quite* convey some of what's going on in that movie.
Although I do wonder where the hell Lucy is supposed to have gotten her clothes.
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Date: 2007-12-23 11:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-12-23 11:30 pm (UTC)(I *can* understand their wanting to enforce lights-out fairly strictly and consistently.)
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Date: 2007-12-24 12:05 am (UTC)For me it's a good blend of Sci Fi and the supernatural.
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Date: 2007-12-24 06:04 am (UTC)