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: 2007-12-24 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. ;)