Notices by Mme Zabet (mmezabet@craftgoblin.club)

I generally don't enjoy movies that are pure psychological horror because largely they are done incredibly poorly. However, last night, we watched IT'S WHAT'S INSIDE on Netflix and it's not exactly psychological horror, but it's also NOT not psychological horror?

#horror?

I don't want to say a lot because I don't want to spoil anything since it's pretty new, but it's definitely one of those "oh, the humans are the monsters, I see" kind of movies. It has a lot of really complex POV storytelling that I think was handled really well with visual cues. I liked it!

#horror?

Also, like, if you loved the look and feel of The Love Witch but thought the pacing was terrible (i.e., faithful to 1970s movies that were trying too hard to be art), this movie is set modern but has a lot of that same kind of color saturation and much, much better pacing.

#horror?

Well, I guess I'm forgetting about the cell phones in The Love Witch. The time period was ambiguous, but strived hard for (and very much achieved) a 1970s vibe.

We watched IDLE HANDS (1999) last night -- a rewatch for me that might as well have been a 1st watch since I only saw it 25 yrs ago.

I have to say that it has held up really well given when it was made. The trademark 2000s awfulness-as-humor is minimal (only one joke jumped out at me), so it's mostly just the usual "tits for no reason" and "let's keep our 18yo female lead nearly naked," which is still baked in to a lot of horror now.

Would mostly recommend!
#horror

Language translation/sensitivity question for Black Americans regarding Norwegian subtitles for an American movie.

Question at this post:
https://fribygda.no/@eivind/112259496926113570

#Translation #BlackMastodon