I’m the kind of movie-goer who loves horror movies but hates when horror movies end on a dour note. It’s weird, but I hate when the evil isn’t “vanquished, if only temporarily” at the end. The lack of optimism retroactively makes the fun horrible things in the film worse for me. That’s why I tend to love slasher…
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Yo, can we not lump Final Destination in there? I actually still think it’s a pretty well-made, interesting twist on the slasher trope. Don’t knock it just ‘cause there’s a bunch of teenagers, k thx.
Also, you might want to, uh, move that collage to where it says [collage].
And “Sugar Honey” used to be what I called my secretary, before HR made me take all those courses on me not doing that.
They used to be called Sugar Smacks, Sugar Pops, Sugar Crisp, etc., but thank god they took all the sugar out of the recipes, so now I can eat them all day without ill effect. Just wholesome honey and, uh, “golden,” I guess?
I think you’re right about being supposed to “wallow in every painful millisecond” - I guess I just have less of a tolerance for that than some do.
It was brilliant, loved every minute of it. Tormund was great, too!
Visions of a Life hasn’t landed quite as square for me as My Love is Cool did, but given MLiC is one of my top ten, maybe even top five, albums of the decade, that’s hardly an indictment (I’m a 90's alt-rock person and MLiC is pretty much my definition of a perfect album). Visions of a Life is a subtler affair with a…
Oh! Forgot to mention that I’ve been listening to a fair amount of Baroness with listen throughs of Purple, Yellow, and Green. I think Purple is an especially good album song-wise, but man, the production kind of sucks. Sludgy, and not the good kind of sludgy. It speaks to the strength of the material that it doesn’t…
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Marilyn Manson, Portrait of an American Family — threw it on after Daisy Berkowitz died. “Cake and Sodomy” remains the most embarrassing thing I used to rock on the regular, good fucking Christ those lyrics, but a lot holds up and Berkowitz’s guitar tone and noise is fuzzier and more interesting than straight-up…
I listened to the Krule album a little, didn’t really grab me. It felt like a.. less interesting version of something I’ve already heard and didn’t like much. So I’ll chalk it up as just not being for me
That’s a REALLY big if though.
I always thought Something to Tide you Over was the best of the bunch. As much as I like The Crate, STTYO has much more atmosphere and appeal to me.
The Raft also has the problem of the blob looking like an oily raincoat.
If I was to pick just one from the Creepshow movies, it would unquestionably be They’re Creeping Up on You. That last shot, man...there’s very little in the entirety of horror cinema to match that.
I would reallly like to see “The Raft” done by a great director. The one in C2 has its moments, but just doesn’t quite cross the finish line for me.
Agreed. And weird feels like the perfect word to describe it because the literature equivalent would indeed be called a “weird western”.
Bone Tomahawk to me felt like a pretty pure horror-western in the sense that it’s practically half a western and then half a horror. The tribe is presented in classic cannibal horror style, so you get a spooky intro before they set out on their journey, which is what feels the most straight up western about it, and…
Agreed - I do have the ‘essentials’: Destroyer’s Rubies, Kaputt, Poison Season. But I definitely categories his work as “art rock” - not necessarily sound-wise, but just the concept - that it’s easier to admire than to love. I always feel like I’m observing Destroyer from afar at a roped-off distance. Contrast that…
You'd think after pretty much 40 episodes of watching these boys have everything fall apart just to see them gloriously rebound as if by a miracle would get old, but the creativity the writers show in finding all these new ways to lose then win have been so much fun. I honestly would have never thought smart fridges…