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    [–]Tarohan 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    Midsommar was great. I watched it the first time alone in theaters and was so shocked halfway through 😂.

    [–]VioletRemi 6 insightful - 5 fun6 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

    Mine is "The Thing".

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    Black swan

    Edit: it felt like horror to me, it took me hours to shake it. Maybe days

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      The scratching. Ugh. It was like watching someone being flayed, seeing her feet and how painful everything was. Such a contrast.

      [–]FrostyNugs 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

      Event Horizon, The Thing, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Grudge are always fun ones to watch! Although if you're looking to be scared, I do have to go with the crowd and reccomend Midsommar.

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      I’m a classic 80’s horror movie kind of gal. It’s slasher season all year long at my house.

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      Before covid, I would regularly go to Terror Tuesday at a movie theater here that would show stuff like Death Spa. The 80s horror well runs deep.

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      I like it all. From Motel Hell to Hell Raiser. The mix of camp and gore was amazing in 80s horror.

      [–]Innisfree 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

      The Shining - that opening shot and the music are spooky season openers for me.

      Not horror per se but i watched yesterday Mulholland Drive. I want to rewatch it and find somebody to process it with. I really liked Room with Brie Larson, but no going back there anytime soon.

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      Mulholland Drive is one of my favorite movies. Did you just watch it for the first time?

      [–]Innisfree 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

      Yes. First time (oh the shame lol) ! I'm sort of still there.. I don't know where I am. But I love sometimes deciding that the second half was Betty's dream and sometimes, that the first half was Diane's.

      Edit: excited sharing. But I wanted to add, I geniuenly mentioned processing in the hope that you'll share your thoughts on it, had an inkling you might have seen it :)

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      Yeah, I saw it when it was first released to theaters and I remember sitting around for hours (days?) afterwards discussing it with other people online trying to figure it out. I wonder what it's like seeing it for the first time today when you can look up the standard interpretation right away. It seems like it would lose some specialness, but maybe it just loses some frustration instead.

      I'm not sure I've ever heard the theory that the second half is the dream part - that's really interesting, I should watch it again and see if that works out. I pretty much just have the standard dull interpretation that the first Nancy Drew-like half is the dream scenario of Diane's.

      [–]Innisfree 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

      Back in 2001. Yeah it was a while ago. Sorry, I cling to dates, to remind myself how far we are from the 90s :)

      I remember sitting around for hours (days?) afterwards discussing it with other people online trying to figure it out.

      What's the German word for nostalgia for things one did not experience :)

      It does take away from the joy of cinema going - all this abundance of takes online. I went into the film only knowing it's about an actress and dreams. Spent a day of trying to puzzle it out. Then went online and read the one sentence that it's about Diane's dream. Was disappointed and decided not to read further, because I want the experience of puzzling out how it all connects.

      As to my interpretation that it could be Bettys' dream - I don't think it works because then Lynch's critique of the myth of Hollywood is not as sharp. So, it's just my optimistic indulgence/amusement.

      Right now I am thinking of the blue box. Pandora's box of dreams and fears. I think the 'tramp' and the box together represent fear. Or the dark side of human nature. Sometimes, it is fun to be wrong :D

      So yeah, cheers for sharing your slice of the experience. I wonder if you watched anything else by Lynch and if so what would you recommend - closer to Mulholland Drive?

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      Yeah, at this point any original interpretations of my own are long gone, and replaced or reinforced with all the takes and blog posts I've read throughout the years. I think the old couple was the one I never quite felt like anyone nailed completely, so I guess there's still some mystery there.

      I don't know if you'll like my answer, but Twin Peaks Season 1-3 would be my recommendation. So there's 40 hours of Lynch for you. A few extra hours more if you count Fire Walk with Me, which I didn't like but I need to watch it again. Season 1 is fantastic. Season 2 starts off strong then takes a major dive that you just have to get through like flossing your teeth and then it ends on an OK note. And then Season 3 is not only the best, most ambitious thing Lynch has ever done, but I think it is the running for the best thing anyone has ever done. Hopefully I am not overhyping it with that.

      But like watching Mulholland Drive now, I also don't know what it would be like to watch them in a relatively short amount of time. There was 25 years between Twin Peaks S1/2 being aired and season 3 (15 years for me since i watched TP 10 years later). I guess people can now binge watch S1/2 and then go straight to binge watching season 3, which just seems really weird.

      The only major works of his I haven't seen are Inland Empire (never got around to it) and Dune (though I'm not sure Dune counts and I don't plan on watching it). The only two Lynch movies I absolutely love are Mulholland Drive and Wild at Heart. The others are all worth watching and have great moments, but those are the only two that fully work for me. Blue Velvet, Lost Highway, and Eraserhead all seem to take turns getting cited as people's favorite Lynch movies, with Elephant Man and Straight Story usually getting sidelined for being more traditional movies.

      [–]Innisfree 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

      Really appreciate your reply. I suppose I'll dive in with Wild at Heart. Nic Cage and Laura Dern in it is another win :).

      Because of time constraints, I suppose Twin Peaks will be perfect for when I'm confined to bed with a terrible cold (October usually does it), or please God No - coronavirus. Although I confess I'm tempted, particularly because you gave an outline and it's nice to know what one is getting into.

      I've seen Elephant Man as a kid. That ending is just heart-rending. The fact that Lynch chose that particular story to tell and that he once said that Kafka is the only artist worth bothering with, points to what is great about his work. He's trying to reach the human, the universal, through the marginal, the bizarre and yes, at times the grotesque. Because we in some ways live marginal lives (all with being homos :)) his work can make an individual's weirdness seem part and parcel of the fabric of humanity, or at least the blue key (couldn't resist :) ) to that humanity.

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        MEEEE TOOOOOOOOOO. I thought about it so much after. Omg (the little stranger)

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        A quite place. I had to stop watching half-way through because I got scared haha. It's more psychological horror than gore, but good. Also parasite! So good.

        On a slightly different note, Coraline. More of a creepy fairy-tale type movie (it's animated) but it was great. I should watch it again, I haven't seen it in years.

        [–]begonia_skies 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

        I get too scared to really watch horror films, I have no idea how someone can watch a scary movie and have an enjoyable experience! Really the only one I can handle is Halloween, the original one, because it's really well done for a horror film in the late 70s as far as pacing and character development. Further, the use of the score to build tension is excellent, imo. Also palatable for me because the villain, Michael, mostly just walks around in a scary manner and has zero apparent motivation, lol.

        [–]Tarohan 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

        The Conjuring - First movie was the only one to get some good jumps from me. I also enjoy the cult classics from the 80's. The newer IT movies were good but man that new chuckie movie was so bad!

        [–]peaked2020 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

        I really enjoyed Hereditary. It's a very slow burn but very well done.

        [–]whateverman 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

        The Visit. I used to be an elder care worker and now I'm kinda scared of mentally ill elderly people. That movie scared the fuck out of me when I first saw it.

        [–]yousaythosethings 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

        I like campy gore if anyone is familiar with Herschel Gordon Lewis.

        Another recommendation for a good horror movie that I never hear talked about: It Follows. That movie stays with you. I think about it all the time.

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        Criterion Channel had a bunch of HGL stuff on it, I wonder if it's still there, I never got around to checking him out.

        [–]yousaythosethings 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

        Def check it out but just know that it’s very gory but in a campy ridiculous way, kind of porny, and endlessly quotable. Def not for the hardcore radfem types around us.

        My personal favorites are She-Devils on Wheels and the Gore Gore Girls.

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        I don't see the HGL stuff on criterion anymore, but the new Arrow streaming service has a bunch. What would you recommend starting with?

        [–]FlanJam 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

        The Ju-On series aka the Grudge. The japanese ones of course, the american remakes were pretty meh despite having the same director.

        Gekijōban Zero aka Fatal Frame: The Movie is also pretty interesting and has a minor lesbian subplot. It kinda plays into the "they're only lesbians because they're in an all girls school" trope, so that's pretty meh. It has an interesting story otherwise tho.

        [–]candiedDagon 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

        “The Vvitch” is my fave. Anyone know anything with a similar feel? Artsy psychological horror I guess. “Hereditary” was way too much violence and shock factor for me.

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        I'm not really good at recommending movies, but I will try:

        There's a lot of "elevated" horror movies around right now, especially from studio A24, that you might want to look into. They almost always have similar pacing to The VVitch, which I liked, but I dislike most of them personally. Still, you might want to check out a ranking list around the internet.

        For recent-ish movies, I'd recommend Annihilation (not horror but some scary parts), It Follows, and Black Swan.

        If you want something that's folksy like The VVitch, then The Wicker Man (70s version, not Nic Cage remake), which is basically Midsommar but without all the gore that you didn't like about Hereditary, though it's goofy in parts and not super scary.

        For my weirdo recommendations, I like:

        Deep Red (Italian giallo murder mystery that plays a lot with memory),

        Pulse (aka Ikiru - the Japanese one that's a metaphor for the internet isolating all of us, very confusing but sad and effective - the American remake is horrible),

        Perfect Blue (not really horror, but the whole thing revolves around the psychology of identity and is scary in its own way),

        I Walked with a Zombie (movie from the 1940s about voodoo).

        [–]yousaythosethings 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

        I LOVE It Follows. I think about it all the time. Which movie on your list would you recommend I prioritize if I liked that?

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        It Follows is really unique and none of the other movies are really all that much like it (I kind of focused on the "arty and psychological" part of her request and my list is all over the place, which is why I'm not good at this kind of thing - I make connections that only make sense to me).

        If I were to make a list of recommendations based on It Follows, I'd probably go with The Guest, The Autopsy of Jane Doe, or House of the Devil - all relatively recent, stylish, effective and genre-heavy like It Follows was. The Guest is the best of those 3 (and it has the same actress as It Follows), imo, though it is more of a thriller than a horror so I would not expect to find it scary.

        [–]yousaythosethings 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

        Thanks! I appreciate your fount of knowledge.

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        I watched a movie tonight called A Dark Song that I think would work for you.

        [–]MrFahrenheit46 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

        I like horror movies that focus on psychological fear rather than jump scares/demonic possession stuff (nothing inherently wrong with either of those; I just think they've been done so much that it removes the impact).