In America, I’d think it stands to be a very tricky case given free speech laws and the body of precedence around parody. I’d think there’d be a place to carve out using that speech commercially, but someone would have to figure out how to slice the pie that thin.

I’m glad Skinamarink exists, because it did legitimately affect people, and I’m really glad to see any indie horror movie make that big a splash, but it’s a film that actively, almost physically, irritated me to watch it.

“Cat dead, details later.”

I’m a big enough horror buff that I keep the year-long subscription, as a way to support the indie filmmakers if nothing else— it’s one of the main places that indie horror pops up on streaming.

If you don’t want to see gore and violence, stick with things like psychological thrillers and ghost stories. The Others comes to mind right away. Older films like the Universal monster movies and the Hammer horror films are pretty tame in terms of blood and violence, but have lots of atmosphere.

And, weirdly, Texas…

Also, is anyone really “curious” to see if DGG and co can pull it off? Because based on the Halloween requels and the paint by numbers trailer, I’m fairly confident already the answer is “no, they can’t.”

Silly me, thinking the “Best of” portion was over once they moved into the “worst of portion.”  But fair enough, it’s where it should be.

I don’t see an article, I see a badly organized slideshow.  But yes, thank you for pointing out that I missed it.

Yes, that is exactly what happened.  Annoying fucking slideshow format.

The fact that the pit of syringes from Saw II isn’t even on this list is quite disturbing to me. I’d have put that at the very top.

They had no idea what to do with Force Awakens, either. They spent absolutely zero time figuring out what would have happened organically from the last time we saw those characters and this world, and it shows.

That’s effective too, though. The problem isn’t the direction, per se, it’s fixing everything around one family (well, I suppose now it’s two, if you count the Palpatines), and about 60 years of history, when you have literally thousands of years to choose from and an entire galaxy (now two) to explore.

“You have to stick with it to the end” is getting to be a really risky proposition for showrunners nowadays.  There’s just too much stuff out there, and too much of it is too good, to do the kind of wheel spinning that SW shows tend towards.

Well, hopefully the writers of the work in question do.  Obviously it’s good if any individual entry is accessible, but it makes for a richer storytelling experience if the character and plot history has ties to what’s come years or decades before.

Fair enough.

It’s a self-fulfilling cycle.

Someone square the circle for me of of multi-million dollar paycheck directors being considered “grass roots”.

They don’t, but you’d think Stefan and the Queen would have the sense to keep her on their good side, given that information.

“It’s not something the daily Mail is going to include in a listicle”