Which films have you seen lately Vol.22 Now with Smell-O-Vision.

[Fippy]

Is anyone else annoyed by Terrifier showing up on all sites these days?
And with high ratings as well..i cannot believe this junk, and RT Imdb etc have no shame to promote sick exploitation.

In other times all of them might have been banned.
Now in the U.S. it's released as "not rated" - in theaters - and part 3 currently tops the box office. Unbelievable.

 

[lymond]

Is anyone else annoyed by Terrifier showing up on all sites these days?
And with high ratings as well..i cannot believe this junk, and RT Imdb etc have no shame to promote sick exploitation.

In other times all of them might have been banned.
Now in the U.S. it's released as "not rated" - in theaters - and part 3 currently tops the box office. Unbelievable.

I was reading about this movie the other day. I don't really know much about the series—just vaguely—but I was struck by the headline that it broke a record for an "unrated" release, a record held previously by a Beyonce concert film I think. Anyway, the article described some of the movie and it did sound horrific, especially the child-killing stuff. I would not see this type of movie anyway. Regardless, what concerns me is that young people might have access to it. The article did mention that theatres here would not allow children without parents, but that there were parents bringing kids to the movie which is just absurd. Of course, you also have kids sneaking into movies.

 

[Kyriakos]

I had watched the first one, which imo was exploitation and dull, going just for gore. The second one was a lot more revolting and iirc I only made it to 15 minutes or similar.

 

[thetrooper]

Villmark (2003)

Or Dead Woods if you go by the English translation.

Blair witch spinoff maybe? Kinda nice suspense all the way from start to finish. Great idea to tint down the colors in the movie. Makes it gloomier that way. Bummer that I as a Norwegian feel like subtitles is in order to see a Norwegian movie (curse your dialects on the west coast).

 

[Takhisis]

#nynorsknotdead

 

[Kyriakos]

Woman of the Hour. A movie directed by Anna Kendrick.
It is taking great liberties with how it presented Rodney Alcala, his victims and how he was finally caught.
Imo it felt nondescript and more of a vehicle for a general point.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Basketcase, 1982. A horror film that's...slightly comic at this point, while not losing its disturbing nature. It's comic because of the practical effects, which I'm sure were most impressive at the time. Clean trailer.

 

[EvaDK]

The Artifice Girl

Excellent and thought provoking thriller from 2022. Divided in three parts, we follow a tight group of characters at three different points in time, tracking and fighting online sexual child abusers. All three parts play out in one room, essentially making the film feel a bit like a stage play, similar to Tarantino's The Hateful Eight.

The brilliant trick that writer and director Franklin Ritch pulls on his audience, is how smoothly the main text of catching child predators, is replaced by the sub text introduced in the first part. The sub text then becomes main text in parts two and three and carries the debate that Ritch is really interested in raising. I won't spoil what it is, you should experience it for yourself. Excellent performances all around.

4/5

 

[Kyriakos]

The Artifice Girl

Excellent and thought provoking thriller from 2022. Divided in three parts, we follow a tight group of characters at three different points in time, tracking and fighting online sexual child abusers. All three parts play out in one room, essentially making the film feel a bit like a stage play, similar to Tarantino's The Hateful Eight.

The brilliant trick that writer and director Franklin Ritch pulls on his audience, is how smoothly the main text of catching child predators, is replaced by the sub text introduced in the first part. The sub text then becomes main text in parts two and three and carries the debate that Ritch is really interested in raising. I won't spoil what it is, you should experience it for yourself. Excellent performances all around.

4/5

Couldn't he ask for a lawyer, then? ^_^ It's a bit unrealistic to sit through talking to the police without a lawyer when you are supposedly intelligent.

 

[Kyriakos]

Rewatching ^^

 

[warpus]

This isn't a movie you can watch, but maybe it should be

Spoiler :

Drew this for a contest where we had to use the concepts "Children in masks", "Engaging in terror", and "At the Circus" in some way, had 24 hours to draw. I'm one of the judges so I couldn't place, but had fun with it anyhow. Plz move to another thread if this isn't the place for it, but it's a movie poster so maybe it fits here

 

[Takhisis]

Hmmm, pixel art!

 

[Smellincoffee]

Late Night with the Devil, 2024. Creepy and interesting film that's set in Halloween 1977: the host of a late-night show called Night Owls hopes to combat faltering ratings by having on his show -- on Halloween Night -- a teenager who was the only survivor of a satanic cult's mass suicide. The panel's guests include a Uri Gellar standin, a James Randi standin who is impressive in his accuracy (he even has a CSICOP-like organization & the same half-million prize for someone who can prove paranoraml activity in controlled conditions), and the aforementioned posessed girl and her guardian/psychologist. The film is presented as the aired episode of the show -- with titles, cutaways, and the like -- and is even letterboxed, not wide screen. It goes into Exorcist territory, though not all the way, and has some backstory that touches on Bohemian Grove. Interesting but disturbing.

 

[EvaDK]

Couldn't he ask for a lawyer, then? ^_^ It's a bit unrealistic to sit through talking to the police without a lawyer when you are supposedly intelligent.

I figure that the option of bringing a lawyer into that room is off the table for Gareth.

Spoiler :

A lawyer - a third party - would be in risk of leaking what is said in that room. That lawyer may represent one or more of the indicted predators in court in the future and would possess knowledge about Cherry not being real, hence there's no real victim. It could completely destroy their work and also be used to overturn previous convictions, if Cherry's true circumstance was leaked.

 

[Sommerswerd]

Tarantino's The Hateful Eight.

Which was excellent BTW... my favourite part about the film is how it makes all the characters cartoonishly vile, but at the same time, charismatic and complex enough to actually share normal, civil, relatable, human moments with each other, even adversaries that they hate with seething passion.

 

[lymond]

Which was excellent BTW... my favourite part about the film is how it makes all the characters cartoonishly vile, but at the same time, charismatic and complex enough to actually share normal, civil, relatable, human moments with each other, even adversaries that they hate with seething passion.

Yeah, I need to watch that again. I recently saw that Netflix has an extended version of THE. I believe it is broken up into parts and over 4 hours. (edit: yep ..4 parts totally 3:30 hours. And even has a separate IMDB Page)

 

[Smellincoffee]

Laserblast, a 1979 SF film about......

Well, the movie opens with some dude running around the desert with a special ray-gun. He sees some aliens, tries to shoot them, fails, and is killed. Later, a teenager discovers the dude's ray-gun and the necklace that goes along with it, and begins playing around with it. Turns out the necklace has some One Ring properties and takes over the user. Meanwhile, some small-town cops and a Mysterious Government G-Man are snooping around. There's lots of explosions, a nice pool scene, and the movie ends.

There's more exposition in the trailer than in the actual film.

Fun in a Horror at Party Beach kind of way.

 

[Takhisis]

There's more exposition in the trailer than in the actual film.

Why am I not surprised.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Rebel Moon parts 1 & 2, director's cut versions. Thoroughly enjoyable. 7 hours!

 

[lymond]

Rebel Moon parts 1 & 2, director's cut versions. Thoroughly enjoyable. 7 hours!

Not great but certainly watchable and looked good. I waited for the director's versions before watching. I did think the ending parts were quite good.