@FuriousMachine Yeah I'm aware of the history, I've not seen any other version of Nosferatu and as the stories are so similar it is difficult not compare to what i've previously seen.
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@FuriousMachine@JohnnyShoulder All this vampire talk has got me thinking. Have either of you ever seen a show called Big Wolf on Campus? Corey Feldman and Corey Haim both guest-starred in episodes as versions of themselves that were supposedly real-life vampires! A nod to their roles in The Lost Boys, and it's lesser-known sequel, which were great movies in their own right, for sure.
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Today's movie was Ash. Watch if you can sit through 60 percent lingering shots of Eiza González's face for a bit of a gory payoff at the end. If you like fun movies though that don't feel like they are spinning their wheels for a good hour, you can miss this one.
@JohnnyShoulder Absolutely, I do it for the sake of the Nosferatus I feel that version of the story is inferior to Stoker's original, so any comparison will for me be to their detriment.
@BlAcK_Sw0rDsMaN I've never heard of that show; one of those things that never made it to these shores, I guess. I need to rewatch "Lost Boys"; been a minute with that one
@Pizzamorg I agree, Eiza González was eminently watchable (as she always is), but the movie was a colossal waste of time, for me (as much as it can be with Eiza González in the lead, mind you)
@FuriousMachine I saw Hellboy ages ago and can't remember any of it, I don't think it made as much of an impression as say the first Blade movie or The Crow or the original 1989 Punisher. I know it wasn't Marvel but I haven't watched a lot of the new super hero/comic book adaptions, they don't always seem as gritty or dark as their source material. I'd like to see a new Spawn movie, the 90's one didn't do super well but it had some great visuals and a fitting soundtrack. I'm hoping the new Constantine movie happens too and doesn't enter development hell. I still have to watch the latest season of DareDevil but Alien Earth will be first. I wanted to watch them in bulk rather than wait for each one to air and it finished up last week so that will take about 8hrs give or take. I watched Bambi the Reckoning last night. I was sure it would be awful but that wasn't the case at all, it felt kind of like Pumpkinhead but with a deer. A jacked up killer deer.
And now I remembered to add Pumpkinhead to this years Halloween list. Each year it's VHS only, keeps it nice and authentic. A little dusty too.
@GirlVersusGame Ah, the Neil Marshall "Hellboy" would be the recent reboot attempt (though not the latest) with David Harbour as Hellboy. The original was by Guillermo Del Toro and I love that one (I have a soft spot for GDT).
As for Spawn, that soundtrack was brilliant! And I kinda liked the movie as well (though I wouldn't call it "good"), but vastly prefer the animated series, which I also have on Blu-Ray.
I've developed a disdain for all the projects exploiting the Disney properties who've entered public domain for cheap horror movies, without having seen a single one of them. I really cannot imagine any of them being anything other than terrible, so I'm surprised to hear that the Bambi one might be worth watching. I will consider reconsidering
@FuriousMachine Then you won't like what I'm about to watch next, Winnie The Pooh Blood and Honey. I heard it's not even a 2 out of 10. I think my last Guillermo Del Toro movie was Pinocchio, I meant to watch The Witches reboot too. He did a great job with Blade 2 also, they should have left the series there and never made 3 or the awful TV series. They turned the pilot into a movie, I've thankfully forgotten everything about it except for it's name. I'm sure I watched Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities but I think Devil's Backbone might be my favorite of his, it's a close tie between that and Pan's Labyrinth.
These violent delights have violent ends & in their triumph die, like fire & powder Which, as they kiss, consume.
@JohnnyShoulder I loved that movie the whole thing was so beautifully shot and framed. The only thing that killed the immersion for me was how much Lily-Rose Depp looked like her father which you'd obviously expect but I kept doing a double take each time she was on-screen. I liked how they focused more on the Occult than Christianity (crucifix) for Willem Dafoe's character too, it was a good twist on the original. Dracula a Love Tale is on my list for this week too. A very recent Luc Besson take on Dracula.
These violent delights have violent ends & in their triumph die, like fire & powder Which, as they kiss, consume.
I missed Nosferatu when it came to the cinema. It was around New Year, and so I was really busy with work.
However I preordered a special edition of the 4K disc, which will arrive in about three weeks. I am a big fan of Eggers’ work, and his atmospheric style. I saw his previous movie, the Northman, at the cinema, and it just blew me away.
@GirlVersusGame I didn't care for "Cabinet of Curiosities" and never finished all the episodes, and I definitely prefer GDT's early, smaller, Spanish language films. "Cronos" is good, "Devil's Backbone" is fantastic and "Pan's Labyrinth" pretty much continuously in my top 5 movies of all whenever someone asks. His Hollywood output is a more mixed bag for me, but I love the guy nonetheless. I'm worn out on "Frankenstein" adaptations, but I'm still really looking forward to his upcoming version.
Good luck with "Blood & Honey", everything I've heard about it jives with your "not even 2 out of 10" statement
Today's movie was House of Sayuri. I want to say its one of the best films I've ever seen, but I know when you say that about a movie it basically ruins it for everyone cause you go in with hype beyond achievability but.... I think it is one of the best films I've ever seen. Not sure I've ever seen a backstory of a character affect me so much, I found myself involuntarily looking away multiple times. That when it was over, I realised I was clenching my fists and grinding my teeth so much it was painful.
@Pizzamorg Wow, now I have to see it and I will, of course, hold you personally accountable if it turns out other than being the best movie I've ever seen... Sorry, harsh, I know, but them's the rules
@FuriousMachine Go in blind if you can. And just warning you, there is a hard tonal pivot half way through and it will risk losing you, but it all comes together just trust me.
@FuriousMachine Hard agree on Pan's Labyrinth, that film is so good! Some of my favourite creature desgns. I'm not a huge fan of Funko Pop's, but one of the few do have is of the Pale Man.
Again I am mixed on Guillermo del Toro's output over the years. I wasn't keen on Crimson Peak, The Shape of Water, Pacific Rim and I didn't watch enough of Pinocchio to warrant an opinon as the songs turned me off.
But the two Hellboy movies, Blade 2, Nightmare Alley, Cronos, and The Devils Backbone I've really enjoyed. Even in the films I've not liked I can appreciate some of the stuff like the set and costume designs.
Life is more fun when you help people succeed, instead of wishing them to fail.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
@GirlVersusGame Yeah you can tell this was a bit of a passion project for Eggers.
There is some really interesting things about the prosthetics that Skarsgard had to put on in some scenes, and the interesting memento that Eggers sent Hoult after the movie wrapped. I won't go into detail so not spoil the film for others, but you should be able to Google it.
@Pizzamorg Will do Currently having some trouble tracking it down on streaming here, my source for "what streams where" (JustWatch) refuses to give me any good info. Will search each option individually tonight, so fingers crossed.
@JohnnyShoulder You just reminded me that I've forgotten all about "Nightmare Alley". I wasn't all that blown away by "Shape of Water" either, so that made me fall off GDT a bit. Will rectify ASAP (especially, as I just found out, since a Criterion Collection release is nigh). I liked "Crimson Peak", but it can't hold a candle to his best work. Likewise I enjoyed the Kaiju spectacle of "Pacific Rim", but it doesn't really feel like a GDT movie. I also need to revisit his Hellboys; on my initial viewings I liked the first one, but the second left me cold.
But first up is "Nightmare Alley"... I feel no small amount of shame having completely forgotten about that (I will watch "Pinocchio" at some point, but that one feels like it's a very solid "not for me" at first blush, so I'm not tripping over myself getting to it).
@FuriousMachine Nightmare Alley is a different to most of his other films, and if you didn't know he directed it, you'd would never guess that he had. Felt very noir-ish, which is rare these days and totally my bag. I enjoyed it, although it almost lose me at one point. Bradley Cooper is ace in it, I was gonna say a career best, but when I thought about it he has been great in a lot of stuff.
Life is more fun when you help people succeed, instead of wishing them to fail.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
Today's movie might be the worst one yet, Presence. A film that asks a question no one else did "what if we made a film where the passive observer audience has to experience a mundane soap opera through a pov of a passive observer no one on the film can see?"
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