Watched a couple of films of Harold Lloyd, who I love almost as much as Buster Keaton, and want to see a crazy man competition between them!
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Martyrs
A young woman's quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.
I don't know why I watched this all the way through. I'm an idiot, I guess. IMO, it's Torture Porn. If only the high-brow, artistic, deep and thoughtful can understand and appreciate this movie, I'm definitely not it.
I wrote this when I saw it:
Anna and Lucie embark on a revenge movie in respect of childhood abuses. In the course of this a ghost story briefly pops up before the movie sinks into a pit of graphic torture and unremitting extreme sadism. I normally synopsise, but I really don't want to, and you really don't want me to, believe me.
This film is very well made, and features excellent makeup effects and some brilliant performances. But it is unremittingly nasty, has minimal redemption for any of its nastiness and, while it doesn't exactly revel in its sadism, it clearly believes it is saying something important. The fact that it is not clear what it is saying (or that what it is saying is inconsequential) means that the unpleasantness which precedes it has been of no value.
And an exquisite version of While My Guitar Gently Weeps in it. I don't normally care for Beatles cover versions, but this is gorgeous.
Telefon, starring Charles Bronson, Lee Remick, and Donald Pleasance.
Crimson Peak
In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds - and remembers.
I liked it very much. I don't know how I missed it when it first came out.
Director Guillermo "Del Toro wanted the film to honor the "grand dames" of the haunted house genre, namely Robert Wise's The Haunting and Jack Clayton's The Innocents. The director intended to make a large-scale horror film in the tradition of those he grew up watching, such as The Omen, The Exorcist, and The Shining. He cited the latter as "another Mount Everest of the haunted house movie", praising the high production values and Stanley Kubrick's control over the large sets."
I first thought it would be cool for skimom2 and her LilMan and sir ghost19 and his tweenager but...no. No. Especially thelast 20minutes or so.
If you have a couple of hours for chills and thrills, I watched it here:
Watch Crimson Peak For Free On solarmovie.sc
I'm off to make some pancakes and sausage. Have a great day!
I'm watching Crimson Peak now. About a third of the way through and so far wow! Thank you so much for recommending this movie! Heart pounding, on the edge of my seat, I find myself guessing what comes next and pow! Wrong! Back to the movie. I'll let you know, while trying not to give anything away, how I like the rest of it.
I loved this movie; Mia Wasikowska is one of my favorite actresses. If you like her, don't miss her in Jane Eyre with Michael Fassbender.
Agreed. The whole movie was marvelous.
Crimson Peak
In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds - and remembers.
I liked it very much. I don't know how I missed it when it first came out.
Director Guillermo "Del Toro wanted the film to honor the "grand dames" of the haunted house genre, namely Robert Wise's The Haunting and Jack Clayton's The Innocents. The director intended to make a large-scale horror film in the tradition of those he grew up watching, such as The Omen, The Exorcist, and The Shining. He cited the latter as "another Mount Everest of the haunted house movie", praising the high production values and Stanley Kubrick's control over the large sets."
I first thought it would be cool for skimom2 and her LilMan and sir ghost19 and his tweenager but...no. No. Especially thelast 20minutes or so.
If you have a couple of hours for chills and thrills, I watched it here:
Watch Crimson Peak For Free On solarmovie.sc
I'm off to make some pancakes and sausage. Have a great day!
The ending was stellar in my opinion. Crimson Peak kept my heart pounding during every scene. The costumes, the acting, the directing, the cinematography, the dialogue, the writing, everything about this movie is fabulous! Yes, Danie, I enjoyed Mia Wasikowska's portrayal of Edith very much. I'll look into getting the movie Jane Eyre. Thanks for the recommendation.
If you haven't read Jane Eyre, you might want to read it first or watch another version first. This one is pretty, but if you don't know the story it could be confusing. They focus on the 'big moments' in the book and spend almost no time on back story or setting up the scenes.
The Magnificent Seven. (the new one)
I thought it was really good.
The story, the action, the actors, the pacing: all good.
I thought it was really good.
The story, the action, the actors, the pacing: all good.
Very good movie! Thanks for the rec, SigmundCrimson Peak
In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds - and remembers.
I liked it very much. I don't know how I missed it when it first came out.
Director Guillermo "Del Toro wanted the film to honor the "grand dames" of the haunted house genre, namely Robert Wise's The Haunting and Jack Clayton's The Innocents. The director intended to make a large-scale horror film in the tradition of those he grew up watching, such as The Omen, The Exorcist, and The Shining. He cited the latter as "another Mount Everest of the haunted house movie", praising the high production values and Stanley Kubrick's control over the large sets."
I first thought it would be cool for skimom2 and her LilMan and sir ghost19 and his tweenager but...no. No. Especially thelast 20minutes or so.
If you have a couple of hours for chills and thrills, I watched it here:
Watch Crimson Peak For Free On solarmovie.sc
I'm off to make some pancakes and sausage. Have a great day!
I watched 'Life' last night. Calvin is pretty scary!
I think I have to offer my (mildly, but not critically, spoiler-y) comments on this one, too.
Would-be authoress of ghost stories (because she can actually see ghosts), Edith falls for the mysterious Sir Thomas Sharpe and, following the violent murder of her industrialist father, marries Sir Thomas and moves with him to his decaying family home, Allerdale Hall, on the Cumbrian Moors. She proposes to invest her inheritance in equipment for mining the liquid red clay on which Allerdale Hall stands, and which is responsible for it being named Crimson Peak. But also living in Allerdale Hall is Sir Thomas's sister Lucille, and she is even more mysterious than he is.
Directed and co-written by Guillermo del Toro, Crimson Peak is chock full of Gothic romance, decor, foreboding and horror – it is essentially Jane Eyre reimagined as a horror story. And that is just as well, because it is a complete load of old tosh in every other respect. Mia Wasikowska is fine as Edith, a Jane Austen heroine with feistiness, and Tom Hiddleston does well as tall dark and mysterious, with a dark secret in the attic, except it's not that dark, and it's not in the attic, because it's Jessica Chastain's Lucille, who pervades the first two thirds of the film looking as if someone is constantly farting just below her nostrils.
The opening sequence, where Edith starts falling for Thomas while Lucille is being mysterious and ever-so-slightly objectionable, is fine. It's when they get to the Cumbrian moors, and Allerdale Hall, that I started losing it. Bear with me – this crumbling stately heap is literally in the middle of nowhere. There is a hole in the roof through which leaves constantly rain down into the main hall, and this is despite the fact there are only a handful of trees in the immediate vicinity, and none of them have any leaves. There are – necessarily – roaring fires in every room (where does the fuel come from?), most of the doors are left open most of the time, and all the heat presumably then rushes out into the central hall and then straight out of the hole in the roof. The house stands on this bed of liquid red clay which oozes up through the floor – we are told several times that the house is actually sinking into it. Not only does this pose construction questions (not to mention how come I have never heard of this invaluable brick-building liquid red clay before), it makes me wonder how come the clay has remained at the top of the moor on which the house stands, what with liquid having a tendency to roll downhill. But don't lose sleep over that, because there is the conundrum of the incriminating wax cylinders and locked chest – given how incriminating these are, why were they kept? Incidentally, the red clay and Edith's ability to see ghosts are both largely irrelevant in terms of plot dynamics.
The story, frankly, is profoundly daft, has more holes in it than a lace doily, and exists only so that the film can exist, and the film only exists Because Gothic.
I like del Toro's work, and I loved the visuals and atmosphere of this movie. But more effort should have been put into the script in order to avoid so much Because Stupid.
LOL! I think Del Toro accomplished exactly what he was going for--atmosphere. None of it was supposed to make logical sense. He's recreated the sense of a gothic novel of the period, much like Edith was supposed have written. Imagery was everything, and this movie has it in spades. Del Toro would, of course, have seen every plot hole in this lace curtain (also very Gothic!), but they didn't matter.
Heads up, TCM subscribers: every Thursday in May is Creature Feature day! Stuff like Empire of the Ants, The Fly, Reptillicus, The Wasp Woman, etc. I've already set my DVR to record Creature from the Black Lagoon (one of my all-time faves) and it's sequel, Revenge of the Creature. How's that for a double feature, cats? If you don't dig that, we can't be pals.
Gillman 4ever!
Gillman 4ever!
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I've never seen Creature from the Black Lagoon. I'll set my DVR. I think this film was referenced in IT.
It's a very good 1950s horror, with excellent 3D if you can manage to see it in 3D.
Rules Don't Apply - romance set around Howard Hughes, concentrates on dullness not romance.
Their Finest - light mildly feminist WWII drama set in British film industry making upbeat war dramas.
Unforgettable - psychological thriller featuring old wife who has it in for new wife. No surprises.
Their Finest - light mildly feminist WWII drama set in British film industry making upbeat war dramas.
Unforgettable - psychological thriller featuring old wife who has it in for new wife. No surprises.
I've never had the pleasure of a three dimensional Gillman, but have always wanted to. Hmm...I bet, in 3-D, Julie Adams looks even more spectacular in that white one-piece bathing suit.
One thing that bugs me, though, is that scene where she just carelessly tosses her cigarette butt into the lagoon. Yeesh, talk about leaving one's 'carbon footprint' on a supposedly pristine, uninhibited 'garden of Eden'. And they're supposed to be scientists! I'm even a smoker, and that scene irks me. Maybe that's what set the creature off: he didn't want the Black Lagoon to become mankind's personal ashtray.
Still, though, excellent flick! Last of the great Universal movie monsters.
