It does look a bit of a hot mess but I have a monthly film theater membership so it hardly cost anything to watch and yes Francis Ford Coppola has made some great films!
As for "The Substance", I don't think I have ever seen anything quite like it! Very primal and simple yet strong and impactful. Nightmare fuel for those with weak stomachs that's for sure. The cinematography is very simple yet beautiful. Soundtrack is great as well. Oh yeah, theres tons of blood at one point which is always fun to watch as a body horror fan.
Highly recommend to anyone looking for an unusual and trippy film!
The trailer for "Get Away", the new horror comedy with Nick Frost and the delightful Aisling Bea made me chuckle. Will have to keep a look out for this one! (And as a Scandinavian, I can 100% confirm that vacationing in Scandinavia has a high chance of looking like this )
Just got back from HELLBOY: The Crooked Man. It was pretty much a straight lift from the comic. Kesey plays Hellboy straight which was great, probably my favourite movie version of the big guy, it would be nice to get more One shot stories like this from the same team.
Oh boy, time for yet another incredibly prolific actor to be eulogised with footage of Harry Potter instead of the million roles that won them awards. They did the same to Michael Gambon and he wasn’t even the original Dumbledore.
@MightyDemon82 Glad to hear it! It looks like it won't get a theatrical release over here, but if it hits digital at the same time as in the US, then I'll be able to catch it in October. Been looking forward to it since I saw the trailer.
@nessisonett Downton Abbey is also being mentioned. I guess the news outlets don't have time to rattle through her long list of credits, so opt for the most popular/recent things she's done.
I remember her from The Secret Garden, Hook and Sister Act mostly. Movies that were always on t.v. when I was a kid!
@FuriousMachine I had fun with it. The cast are all great, but the stand out for me was Leah McNamara as Effie Kolb.
After watching Hellboy, it's got me in the mood for horror in all mediums. I couldn't think of a more perfect time for indulging in the genre, as we head into October.
Watched the two The Meg movies this week. Such great movies! I feel like there hasn't been a good shark movie since Jaws and even that one I didn't like that much. But The Meg movies were just so good. The first one was good as the concept of ancient species existing at the bottom of the ocean was really interesting to me. The second one was better as it had more action and more exciting scenes. The last half hour was just non-stop action, I loved it!
@LtSarge You know how people say "I couldn't disagree more"? Well, sorry mate, I think this is a case where I quite literally could not disagree more
Glad you loved them, but better than Jaws? Blasphemy! Heresy! Lunacy!
Personally I found The Meg unimaginative, derivative and, worst of all, boring. I didn't hate the sequel; I actually enjoyed parts of it, but there are, in my opinion, plenty of shark movies that would swallow it whole
@colonelkilgore "But yeah... no" what? That I didn't like The Meg more than Jaws? Pretty sure I just said that I did.
@FuriousMachine Never said that the movies were better than Jaws. I said that I liked them more than Jaws. There's a difference between saying something is better and liking something more. I acknowledge that people find Jaws to be a good movie. I just didn't like it.
Not only did I write "There hasn't been a good shark movie since Jaws", hence stating that Jaws is a good movie, I specifically wrote that I didn't like it, not that I thought it was a bad movie.
There's a reason why I try to avoid using a term like "better" in order to avoid arguments like these (not that it made any difference this time). I genuinely couldn't care less which movie people consider is better.
@LtSarge dude, if someone makes a categorically outlandish statement that would even subtly imply that The Meg (a movie considered to be generally ‘bad’ by objective cinephiles) is better than Jaws (a cinematic masterpiece regardless of era)… then that special someone is opening themself up to a bit of harmless banter (at the very least 😉). Try not to take it too seriously nor personally… it’s just good fun (and an education a la the university-of-life).
Every October I try and watch one horror movie a day in the lead up to Halloween to try and catch up on the horror I'd missed over the last couple of years. I started early this year cause October begins on a Tuesday and watched the Empty Man, which during the dog days of Covid had a brief window in time where it seemed to take over my timelines. I deffo get why it caught people, especially during a time where a lot of people were probably very bored, but I just thought it was overall a bit of a mess and kind of a redundant exercise in the end.
@Pizzamorg One a day is quite a commitment! Do you go in a particular order, save the best until last type thing?
No real order to be honest. I tend to look around for peoples blogs online who have been to horror film festivals a year or two earlier (to give time for the films to get out of the circuits and onto streaming) and just make a list of stuff that catches my eye as I find them. When I've made a list of a dozen or so movies, I then filter it out by looking at the general temperature towards it on Letterboxd. Then with that is left, I look online to see how I can legally watch it. Streams or rentals are easier, but I buy BluRays too if that is the only way and that tends to figure out for me the order I watch what is left. Repeat until the month is over.
@LtSarge Yeah, you're right, and I apologize. I agree with you on that front and try to avoid statements of "good" and "bad" as if my opinion is the objective truth myself, at least for the most part. So my statement implying that you said one was better than the other was my bad, even if it was said in mock outrage
The rest of it stands, though.
Oh, and as for there not being any worthwhile shark movies since Jaws? Deep Blue Sea wants a word (Open Water and The Shallows are a bit miffed by that statement, too)
@Pizzamorg I love that! I try to get in at least a couple of horror movies a week during October and I have an annual tradition of watching Trick 'R' Treat on (or close to) Halloween itself (and, hopefully, the new 4K will arrive in time for this year's viewing).
Hope you'll continue to post your October viewing experiences here; I would love to get some inspiration for my own (admittedly smaller) Halloween-a-thon
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