Larry Cohen also rules, which brings me to the next movie I watched, A Return to Salem's Lot. Then there was this shitty old guy in a cowboy hat who showed up like clockwork every Saturday to ask me about a flavor we didn't carry, have never carried, and would never carry and wouldn't leave me alone until I got my manager to convince him that we didn't carry it and we'd have to talk to the buyer, which was a process that could take weeks. They'd always want more than we had and never understood how and why we ran out, despite the crowds of people fiending for their fix and the ads clearly indicating availability being limited "while supplies last." There was always some asshole in sweatpants who stood too close to me while he demanded entire cases of certain flavors. I used to have to stock and re-stock Yoplait singles when they went on sale and people were absolute jackasses about getting their hands on as much of the slimy garbage as they could. Having worked in retail in the past, I can't say enough about how prescient about consumer capitalism this movie is. On the strength of the recommendations in this thread, I watched The Stuff, which I'd never seen before. perfect haunted house movie in every way. this was one of the biggest blind spots I still had left in terms of canonical horror that id never seen before and it didn't disappoint. I have little to say about it, I've seen it so many times that I basically have it memorized.Ĩ.) the haunting. I watched a lot of pretty heavy stuff and wanted a fun movie and obviously this is the GOAT for creepy Halloween fun. I need to rewatch it more often because it really is great.ħ.) night of the living dead. Sherri moon zombie does such a great job building such a sympathetic character and the rest of the cast is just as great. it uses his comic book horror style in a way that's more compelling than it is when he's just throwing it at you constantly. I haven't really liked anything else zombie has done, but goddamn this movie rules. saw this when it came out but haven't watched it since and had that wonderful "oh fuck, that's right, I love movie" moment. hadn't seen this since high school and it holds up.Ħ.) the lords of salem. nothing revelatory but really, really well done.ĥ.) candyman. the way the younger killer seems like he's being set up as the typical "killer has a moral center and has a change of heart" only to become the more sadistic of the two was a great misdirect. the long tracking ahot of the lead woman with the baby walking silently behind her was so fucking creepy and perfect. the nonlinear story could be an easy gimmick, but the seamless way it transitions from story to story creates a really genuine sense of tension, especially when combined with how unpredictable the shifts are- sometimes you get a whole scene, sometimes you get 3 seconds- there's real disorientation and it's effective. one of the best iterations of "people lost in the woods confronted by killers" I've seen in a while. watched based on franco mentioning it a few pages back. I kind of hate the meme this series has become but this movie is still perfect.Ĥ.) killing ground. the way the ritual scene focuses on the son's face for most of it kept it personal. I could see not loving the way the ending literalized everything, but I'm such a sucker for satanic ritual stuff and thought this section was really, really well done and the ambiguity over the mothers role in everything at least keeps some of the tension and mystery alive after the film ends. the inciting incident was a genuine shock and everything after was relentlessly intense. missed this when it came out and also managed to miss most spoilers, too. the imagery was good and I liked most of the setpieces but it's weirdly paced and drags quite a bit in places.Ģ.) hereditary. It does get into some white savior bullshit, but setting it during an uprising was smart because it allowed craven to make the enemy the Haitian bourgeois instead of just Haiti itself and allowed to avoid falling into some traps that this kind of movie often falls into. I was a little iffy going in based on the premise, but it ended up being a lot smarter than I had anticipated.
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