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I watched Skinamarink on Shudder (thank to you guys on TLO mentioning it) with light on and other people and I was still very creeped out. I had to skip some parts and looked away from the screen because I couldn't stand the full experience. I looked up other people's reactions and it was divisive with some saying it was horrible pretentious crap and others praising it as the best horror film. I think the reason is some people have a lower fear response or just forget they have a primal fear of the dark. Kind of like how humans have evolved to sense snakes and spiders because they fear them, so the same with darkness. The last 30 min was horrifying for me as a sense of doom grew and culminated with the face. I will probably have nightmare about this film in the future. :(
 
Wisconsin Death Trip, a 1999 documentary by James Marsh, based on the book by Michael Lesy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW9X6hxxsnE
 
The novel The Pledge was great. I saw the film at the theater. I felt it did justice to the book. What Nicholson's character did was effed up. Tom Noonan has always given me the creeps since Manhunter. Mickey Rourke had a powerful scene opposite Nicholson. They tried to dumb down Robin Wright's beauty. It was a little heavy-handed, but I guess it worked. She was stunning in State of Grace, and The Princess Bride, of course.

I still haven't seen the 1958 film It Happened in Broad Daylight. It got great reviews on IMDb. It's on YouTube.

It may have been Druidic who introduced me the Durrenmatt. I know he introduced me to the novella Traps, which is one of my favorites.

https://www.ligotti.net/showthread.php?t=9247&highlight=pledge+durrenmatt

This is the copy that I owned:

 
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bendk said:
The novel The Pledge was great. I saw the film at the theater. I felt it did justice to the book. What Nicholson's character did was effed up. Tom Noonan has always given me the creeps since Manhunter. Mickey Rourke had a powerful scene opposite Nicholson. They tried to dumb down Robin Wright's beauty. It was a little heavy-handed, but I guess it worked. She was stunning in State of Grace, and The Princess Bride, of course.

I still haven't seen the 1958 film It Happened in Broad Daylight. It got great reviews on IMDb. It's on YouTube.

It may have been Druidic who introduced me the Durrenmatt. I know he introduced me to the novella Traps, which is one of my favorites.

https://www.ligotti.net/showthread.php?t=9247&highlight=pledge+durrenmatt

This is the copy that I owned:

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I am undecided about watching the German film. From what I read, Dürrenmatt wrote the novel after the screenplay because he thought the movie's ending was unrealistic and more in line with traditional detective stories. I think I am going to stick with Sean Penn's version.
 
Robert Adam Gilmour said:
Earwig (someone here was talking about it months ago), Laurin (gothic film came to bluray recently), Empire Of The Sun, Hail Caesar, The Man Who Wasn't There
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I saw Earwig after reading the same post you mentioned; it is based on a novel by Brian Catling. I haven't read any of his work, but I look forward to reading his Vorrh trilogy.
 
miguel1984 said:
Robert Adam Gilmour said:
Earwig (someone here was talking about it months ago), Laurin (gothic film came to bluray recently), Empire Of The Sun, Hail Caesar, The Man Who Wasn't There
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I saw Earwig after reading the same post you mentioned; it is based on a novel by Brian Catling. I haven't read any of his work, but I look forward to reading his Vorrh trilogy.
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You can get those Vorrh books really cheap on eBay.
 
I was impressed by Prisoners too, didn't seem like something I'd like much but I think it's one of Villeneuve's better films.

Also watched a 3 hour documentary by Martin Scorsese about early American films, can't recall the title.
I watched Kiss Me Deadly later because there was impressive clips of it.
 
I watched Tess (1979) by Roman Polanski for the first time after reading some of the dreadful reviews The Palace (2023) received. What a film.
 
I recently watched three decent heist/film noir movies. All three were enjoyable. 7/10

Wrath of Man
2021

The Bank Job
2008

Bad Times at the El Royale
2018
 
It's a Beautiful World (2014), a documentary film about David Lynch's journey to India, directed by Richard Beymer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhNojN7XWgY
 
I watched two good movies one featuring a protagonist you cannot help but hate (Talk to me) and other with a protagonist that is absolutely stupid but you sort of empathize with (When Evil Lurks).
 
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