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tepista wrote:
13 Oct 2022, 9:31am
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Anyone seen Pearl?
Even better than X.
Should I watch X first, is it necessary or will Pearl standalone and not confuse me?

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revbob wrote:
13 Oct 2022, 9:42am
tepista wrote:
13 Oct 2022, 9:31am
revbob wrote:
10 Oct 2022, 7:56am
Anyone seen Pearl?
Even better than X.
Should I watch X first, is it necessary or will Pearl standalone and not confuse me?
Nah, since it's a prequel, there' shouldn't be any confusing bits. I'd watch them both cuz they're great. Mia Goth is a star.
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tepista wrote:
13 Oct 2022, 9:54am
revbob wrote:
13 Oct 2022, 9:42am
tepista wrote:
13 Oct 2022, 9:31am
revbob wrote:
10 Oct 2022, 7:56am
Anyone seen Pearl?
Even better than X.
Should I watch X first, is it necessary or will Pearl standalone and not confuse me?
Nah, since it's a prequel, there' shouldn't be any confusing bits. I'd watch them both cuz they're great. Mia Goth is a star.
Either particularly un-gory? Trying to see what the wife might enjoy. She is going out of town for a few days, so I was planning on watching both of these. I'm trying to force "It Follows" on her as I really want to re-watch and don't remember it being particularly violent.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.

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matedog wrote:
13 Oct 2022, 10:39am
tepista wrote:
13 Oct 2022, 9:54am
revbob wrote:
13 Oct 2022, 9:42am
tepista wrote:
13 Oct 2022, 9:31am
revbob wrote:
10 Oct 2022, 7:56am
Anyone seen Pearl?
Even better than X.
Should I watch X first, is it necessary or will Pearl standalone and not confuse me?
Nah, since it's a prequel, there' shouldn't be any confusing bits. I'd watch them both cuz they're great. Mia Goth is a star.
Either particularly un-gory? Trying to see what the wife might enjoy. She is going out of town for a few days, so I was planning on watching both of these. I'm trying to force "It Follows" on her as I really want to re-watch and don't remember it being particularly violent.
Wasn't It Follows mostly implied horror?

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matedog wrote:
13 Oct 2022, 10:39am
tepista wrote:
13 Oct 2022, 9:54am
revbob wrote:
13 Oct 2022, 9:42am
tepista wrote:
13 Oct 2022, 9:31am
revbob wrote:
10 Oct 2022, 7:56am
Anyone seen Pearl?
Even better than X.
Should I watch X first, is it necessary or will Pearl standalone and not confuse me?
Nah, since it's a prequel, there' shouldn't be any confusing bits. I'd watch them both cuz they're great. Mia Goth is a star.
Either particularly un-gory? Trying to see what the wife might enjoy. She is going out of town for a few days, so I was planning on watching both of these. I'm trying to force "It Follows" on her as I really want to re-watch and don't remember it being particularly violent.
I revisited It Follows recently, there's an extremely gory aftermath shot of the first kill, where a girl has her bloody leg all bent up in the wrong direction, but not a splatterfest after that. X and Pearl are gory, no other way to put it.
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matedog wrote:
13 Oct 2022, 10:39am
tepista wrote:
13 Oct 2022, 9:54am
revbob wrote:
13 Oct 2022, 9:42am
tepista wrote:
13 Oct 2022, 9:31am
revbob wrote:
10 Oct 2022, 7:56am
Anyone seen Pearl?
Even better than X.
Should I watch X first, is it necessary or will Pearl standalone and not confuse me?
Nah, since it's a prequel, there' shouldn't be any confusing bits. I'd watch them both cuz they're great. Mia Goth is a star.
Either particularly un-gory? Trying to see what the wife might enjoy. She is going out of town for a few days, so I was planning on watching both of these. I'm trying to force "It Follows" on her as I really want to re-watch and don't remember it being particularly violent.
I saw The Ring the other night and it's not gory. Still holds up decently, might be a good pick.
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tepista wrote:
13 Oct 2022, 11:10am
matedog wrote:
13 Oct 2022, 10:39am
tepista wrote:
13 Oct 2022, 9:54am
revbob wrote:
13 Oct 2022, 9:42am
tepista wrote:
13 Oct 2022, 9:31am


Even better than X.
Should I watch X first, is it necessary or will Pearl standalone and not confuse me?
Nah, since it's a prequel, there' shouldn't be any confusing bits. I'd watch them both cuz they're great. Mia Goth is a star.
Either particularly un-gory? Trying to see what the wife might enjoy. She is going out of town for a few days, so I was planning on watching both of these. I'm trying to force "It Follows" on her as I really want to re-watch and don't remember it being particularly violent.
I revisited It Follows recently, there's an extremely gory aftermath shot of the first kill, where a girl has her bloody leg all bent up in the wrong direction, but not a splatterfest after that. X and Pearl are gory, no other way to put it.
Oh right. I think that's probably minimal enough that it should be okay (minimal in terms of frequency, not the intensity of the shot which is not "minimal"). I'll keep X and Pearl for her work trip. Along with porn, I assume.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.

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Flex wrote:
13 Oct 2022, 11:41am
matedog wrote:
13 Oct 2022, 10:39am
tepista wrote:
13 Oct 2022, 9:54am
revbob wrote:
13 Oct 2022, 9:42am
tepista wrote:
13 Oct 2022, 9:31am


Even better than X.
Should I watch X first, is it necessary or will Pearl standalone and not confuse me?
Nah, since it's a prequel, there' shouldn't be any confusing bits. I'd watch them both cuz they're great. Mia Goth is a star.
Either particularly un-gory? Trying to see what the wife might enjoy. She is going out of town for a few days, so I was planning on watching both of these. I'm trying to force "It Follows" on her as I really want to re-watch and don't remember it being particularly violent.
I saw The Ring the other night and it's not gory. Still holds up decently, might be a good pick.
Just that one jump scare dead girl in the closet scene. Nah, we've both seen it.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.

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Silent Majority wrote:
13 Oct 2022, 2:18am
Flex wrote:
13 Oct 2022, 12:51am
I finally watched Midsommar, great flick. Really, really right in my wheelhouse.
Loved how it looked.
I still haven't seen it. I was a bit put off by the director saying Wicker Man wasn't an influence and some of the discourse around him somehow elevating horror. I thought Hereditary was decent but not as good as stuff by Wheatley or Eggers.
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eumaas wrote:
13 Oct 2022, 12:46pm
Silent Majority wrote:
13 Oct 2022, 2:18am
Flex wrote:
13 Oct 2022, 12:51am
I finally watched Midsommar, great flick. Really, really right in my wheelhouse.
Loved how it looked.
I still haven't seen it. I was a bit put off by the director saying Wicker Man wasn't an influence and some of the discourse around him somehow elevating horror. I thought Hereditary was decent but not as good as stuff by Wheatley or Eggers.
I didn't care for Hereditary. I think it did a poor job of melding the grief film with the horror film.
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Silent Majority wrote:
13 Oct 2022, 12:52pm
eumaas wrote:
13 Oct 2022, 12:46pm
Silent Majority wrote:
13 Oct 2022, 2:18am
Flex wrote:
13 Oct 2022, 12:51am
I finally watched Midsommar, great flick. Really, really right in my wheelhouse.
Loved how it looked.
I still haven't seen it. I was a bit put off by the director saying Wicker Man wasn't an influence and some of the discourse around him somehow elevating horror. I thought Hereditary was decent but not as good as stuff by Wheatley or Eggers.
I didn't care for Hereditary. I think it did a poor job of melding the grief film with the horror film.
I think my go-to films for that theme would be Don't Look Now (1973) and the Eclipse (2009).
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For recent occult horror I think A Dark Song is much better than Hereditary.
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midsommar's the blood on the tracks of folk horror
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that's a little targeted joke for the three of us having this conversation
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Flex wrote:
13 Oct 2022, 11:41am
matedog wrote:
13 Oct 2022, 10:39am
tepista wrote:
13 Oct 2022, 9:54am
revbob wrote:
13 Oct 2022, 9:42am
tepista wrote:
13 Oct 2022, 9:31am


Even better than X.
Should I watch X first, is it necessary or will Pearl standalone and not confuse me?
Nah, since it's a prequel, there' shouldn't be any confusing bits. I'd watch them both cuz they're great. Mia Goth is a star.
Either particularly un-gory? Trying to see what the wife might enjoy. She is going out of town for a few days, so I was planning on watching both of these. I'm trying to force "It Follows" on her as I really want to re-watch and don't remember it being particularly violent.
I saw The Ring the other night and it's not gory. Still holds up decently, might be a good pick.
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