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I can see where this reading comes from, but I prefer a reading more along the lines of, Thomasin's only escape from the strangulation of a puritan society was to embrace Satan. Becoming a witch represents freedom for her, even if it seems bad and scary. That her culture only gives her this route as an escape says more about a rotten society than about witches being bad, in my opinion.
It became a child of the corn.Corn doesn't account that that baby had to go somewhere
This is pretty much my take, too.I have no shame nominating Aliens. Yes, it's an action movie. Yes, the tension and pacing of the first film was replaced with gun-totin marines with pithy one liners. But the part that makes it frightening to me is the firepower was irrelevant, greed-fueled humans are just as cruel and vicious as the aliens, and there's still a few good scares in here. It's definitely borderline but considering I don't care much for horror films, this was one of the few "kindas" I felt would pass muster.
This explains so much.
ETA: I have that same double DVD, so I guess I need to watch 'em with commentary!
And side note: We won't be revisiting any films in the House series, so feel free to add your thoughts about the other(s), too.
Oh, and I still find it hilarious that Kenner made an action figure line based on this strongly R-rated film in the 1990s. Those are some of the best toys ever, by the way.
The VVitch didn't make my list but its a fantastic piece of unnerving art horror. Its very much a slow burn movie so I'm sure it disappointed a lot of a certain kind of horror fan who heard about the "best horror movie of the year".
Same here. I like everything on paper about The Witch, but actually watching it I was bored more often than not.I feel like that might be me, except I usually love slow-burns?
Night of the Comet is a 1984 American science fiction comedy horror film written and directed by Thom Eberhardt. It stars Catherine Mary Stewart, Robert Beltran, and Kelli Maroney as survivors of a comet that has turned most people into either dust or zombies.
So...is that all for today?
Today's is not a double feature, correct.
Would you like another?
Yes!!
Ring (リング, Ringu) is a 1998 Japanese horror film directed by Hideo Nakata, based on the 1991 novel by Kôji Suzuki. The film stars Nanako Matsushima, Hiroyuki Sanada and Rikiya Ōtaka, and follows a reporter who is racing to investigate the mystery behind a cursed videotape that kills the viewer seven days after watching it.
It's not that Aliens doesn't have horror elements. But if it wasn't a sequel to Alien, would you put it on this list?
Wow.Lists: Sabrecat (#6); Zef (#6); Teg (#6)
On the other hand, Shockwave cameo.
Possibly if I watched the two back to back, I'd end up agreeing with you! I was working from dim memory, and seemed to recall that the American version was more explain-y? Focused on the backstory of the tape and how it all works, that sort of thing--which I often find American horror loves to do, to the detriment of the actual creepiness. But maybe that was in the original too and my brain lost it.Unpopular opinion: the American version of The Ring is better than the Japanese version.
Too late now.It's not that Aliens doesn't have horror elements. But if it wasn't a sequel to Alien, would you put it on this list?
Maybe the real horror was the friends we made along the way.
In case you don't know what Tegan is talking about - Private Vasquez in Aliens was portrayed by an actress named Jenette Goldstein. If you don't want to make assumptions based on her name just check out this picture of her potraying John Connor's adoptive mother in Terminator 2 to see how white she is.I have a lot of gripes with Aliens; I think it assassinates a lot of the mystique of the first movie by turning Xenomorphs into "basically termites" and showing how easily they can be killed en masse; plus it's got that classic "white people playing POC" element that was in bad taste at the time and has only gotten worse with age.
Night of the Living Dead is a 1968 American independent horror film written, directed, photographed and edited by George A. Romero, co-written by John Russo, and starring Duane Jones and Judith O'Dea. The story follows seven people who are trapped in a rural farmhouse in western Pennsylvania, which is under assault by an enlarging group of cannibalistic, undead corpses.
Aw c'mon, what happens next? Why did it end like that? How does humanity overcome the zombie plague?
"Next?" There's no overcoming it. Humanity is doomed.
Well, I wanna see them try, anyway!
You'll just have to imagine it. We have no idea what movie is coming next.
Actually...
Dawn of the Dead is a 1978 independent horror film directed and edited by George A. Romero. It is the second film in Romero's Night of the Living Dead series of zombie films, and though it contains no characters or settings from the preceding film Night of the Living Dead (1968), it shows in a larger scale the effects of a zombie apocalypse on society. In the film, a phenomenon of unidentified origin has caused the reanimation of the dead, who prey on human flesh.
Okay, but then what?
Well, there are more films, but spoiler alert, humanity never fixes the problem.
Do we at least get to watch them? Video Knight???
Sorry.
This list is cancelled!!!
This list is cancelled!!!