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only did this because the concept of a rhyme-based movie-pairing scheme is funny, but they were actually sooo gripping together. two very different horror genres operating on entirely different scales (rope as the horror of being in close quarters w/ people, nope as the horror of wide-open space)....but there's such a strong resonance between nope's relationship to visual information and rope's relationship to spoken information. i was Experiencing It. total run-time 3 and a half hrs.
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Feb 8, 2025
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my two experiences watching nosferatu. 1. opening night, christmas day, blind date. the blind date didn't buy my popcorn but that's okay because i am a fein for popcorn and don't like sharing anyway. besides the vague cameos in spongebob this was my first experience watching any rendition of the film. (shoutout to our nepotism baby starlit ~ lily-rose depp, she did a great job. no one can really get to the depth of erotic possession like she can.) the best part of seeing any film is the audience reactions. so with the final scene of the film all you can hear was the collective "uhhh what?" memorable christmas to say the least. no second date and I prefer it that way. 2. couple weeks later, best friend comes to town, i take him to my favorite theater... he buys me popcorn (i didn't have to share), a glizzy and drink for himself. my only irritation was the projector was just off☆.. this film needs the justice it deserves, color, sound etc adds to all. so the blacks were too black that you couldn't really see the details. the details are key people! i almost had a karen moment lol. so yeah, the homie ended up falling asleep and i don't blame him. the real joy is all the memes that came from this saga.
Feb 13, 2025
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I know I’m 1000 years late to the party here… I had friends on Tumblr like ten years ago who loved Rob Zombie but I initially dismissed his body of work and refused to watch any of his films. I already intuitively knew this to be true but this officially marks the point at which I confirm that I definitively have bad taste because I loved this movie. House of 1000 Corpses is a love letter to Texas Chainsaw Massacre and grindhouse cinema, and exists within the thematic subset of horror movies about people on a road trip who find themselves stranded in the worst place imaginable due to vehicular dysfunction—The Hills Have Eyes, House of Wax or Wrong Turn—which I LOVE. Like truly among my favorite concepts. Where I grew up, to get anywhere you would have to drive hours through empty desert with random little creepy houses and old gas stations (both operational and abandoned) littered along the way, and nothing in between. So these kinds of scenarios were like all I could ever imagine as a hysterical demented child. But I love this even more because it’s like okay what if you took those movies and made them more like Off Season by Jack Ketchum which was one of my favorite horror books as a teen (highly recommend if you’re a freak like me) and is so graphic and disturbing and hopeless. (See italicized footnote at the bottom for further thoughts…) But also add in goofy campy characters like a Harley Quinn/Elly May Clampett-type girl who likes to do makeup like Theda Bara and perform Marilyn Monroe songs on stage, her evil brother who looks like Riff Raff, and their mom who is like redneck Jennifer Coolidge played by KAREN BLACK (who slayed btw literally and figuratively). Combine it with a haunted house thrill ride and also make it weirdly hilarious, completely insane, and devoid of taste with absolutely no restraint. But with a hyper-stylized fantastical element that allows you to view the happenings on screen with some amount of remove and enjoy yourself rather than just feeling sickened and low-vibrational. Go off Robert Zombie!!!! (Footnote: All of these stories are based on the legend of the Sawney Bean family which okay blah blah anti-Scottish propaganda by the British—some scholars actually believe in its veracity as a true accounting of events—but like what if??? Wouldn’t that be sooo creepy to be on your horse at night, far away from other people, and come upon a band of inbred roaming cannibals and you have no phones no lights no motorcars not a single luxury and they take you into a damn CAVE. I can believe it happening because Fred and Rose West were unfortunately real. Well anyway if you like the terror that conjured up for you and are interested in its truest modern analogue read Open Season by Jack Ketchum or watch this movie I guess. Thanks for reading if you did)
Oct 27, 2024

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the princess diaries 2 soundtrack lived in my discman. our living room radio was for radio disney. the boxy glitchy little alarm clock/radio/tape player in my bedroom was for jazz. when cds lived outside of my discman, i could offer them a home in my blue and orange nickelodeon karaoke machine (just a small boom box w/ attached microphone lol, pictured here). & when i was 11 i got an ipod shuffle that i wore around my neck and filled with songs mostly by lemon demon and smoosh (smoosh had recently been profiled in american girl magazine).