Greetings and welcome to another edition of Count Tovarisch's 31 Days of Halloween Spooktacular!!! Ha ha ha ha ha!
Tonight we explore 4 spooky films that your host has viewed in the last 24 hours.
So without further ado, let us being.
So first we watched The Incident (2014), which like the other film from writer/director Isaac Ezban is fucking brilliant. I have already written on his sophomore masterpiece The Similars (2015). This film is the same kind of phildickian mindfuck. Phildickian is apt because one of the few items in the infinite staircase is Time Out of Joint. It is about two parallel stories: one in an infinite staircase, another on an infinite road. This film is brilliant and well worth a watch.
Second film is Goodnight Mommy (2014). My wife and I actually saw this film on one of our first dates in the same theater that we saw Mother (2017) tonight. It is about some twins whose mother has had reconstructive surgery and they begin to doubt that she is actually their mother. This film gets more intense as it goes on and it explores the strange consequences when trust is lost between parent and child. Another great film.
Tonight my wife and I went to see Mother (2017) at the theater. It, like Goodnight Mommy, deals with motherhood issues as the titles might suggest. However, Goodnight Mommy is more from the child's perspective, whereas Mother is more from the mom's perspective. It paints pregnancy anxiety in an artful way and has a great deal to say about how women, especially mothers, are pushed aside in our society. There are some familiar faces. Ed Harris stands out as the gravitas of the film, but Michelle Pfieffer haunts this film like a banshee. None of the characters have any names in this film. Jennifer Lawrence is perfect as the main character who must face increasing uncertainty and chaos invading her less and less idyllic life. Mass hysteria and celebrity culture are also addressed in this film. One of the best new films I've seen this year, for sure.
It is definitely a Darren Aranofsky film situated in the Aranofsky universe. It's almost a sequel to Black Swan (2010).
I have previously written that Don't Breathe (2016) was an example of where male film makers attempted to make a feminist film and failed. I think Mother, like Antichrist (2009), is an exception.
It's one of those films you need to see a few times I'm sure. What was that drug she was mixing with water and added to the plaster? We'll have to watch it again.
Finally we come to our film festival pic of the night: I Drink Your Blood (1970). I've already written extensively on this film so there's not really much I need to say now. Suffice to say, it is one of my all time favorite films.
Tonight we explore 4 spooky films that your host has viewed in the last 24 hours.
So without further ado, let us being.
So first we watched The Incident (2014), which like the other film from writer/director Isaac Ezban is fucking brilliant. I have already written on his sophomore masterpiece The Similars (2015). This film is the same kind of phildickian mindfuck. Phildickian is apt because one of the few items in the infinite staircase is Time Out of Joint. It is about two parallel stories: one in an infinite staircase, another on an infinite road. This film is brilliant and well worth a watch.
Second film is Goodnight Mommy (2014). My wife and I actually saw this film on one of our first dates in the same theater that we saw Mother (2017) tonight. It is about some twins whose mother has had reconstructive surgery and they begin to doubt that she is actually their mother. This film gets more intense as it goes on and it explores the strange consequences when trust is lost between parent and child. Another great film.
Tonight my wife and I went to see Mother (2017) at the theater. It, like Goodnight Mommy, deals with motherhood issues as the titles might suggest. However, Goodnight Mommy is more from the child's perspective, whereas Mother is more from the mom's perspective. It paints pregnancy anxiety in an artful way and has a great deal to say about how women, especially mothers, are pushed aside in our society. There are some familiar faces. Ed Harris stands out as the gravitas of the film, but Michelle Pfieffer haunts this film like a banshee. None of the characters have any names in this film. Jennifer Lawrence is perfect as the main character who must face increasing uncertainty and chaos invading her less and less idyllic life. Mass hysteria and celebrity culture are also addressed in this film. One of the best new films I've seen this year, for sure.
It is definitely a Darren Aranofsky film situated in the Aranofsky universe. It's almost a sequel to Black Swan (2010).
I have previously written that Don't Breathe (2016) was an example of where male film makers attempted to make a feminist film and failed. I think Mother, like Antichrist (2009), is an exception.
It's one of those films you need to see a few times I'm sure. What was that drug she was mixing with water and added to the plaster? We'll have to watch it again.
Finally we come to our film festival pic of the night: I Drink Your Blood (1970). I've already written extensively on this film so there's not really much I need to say now. Suffice to say, it is one of my all time favorite films.
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