I'm astonished at revisiting the opening 12 minutes or so of this film. So many times we revisit an old horror-flame only to be left underwhelmed. This one is different. Shot under obviously challenging conditions that outdo much higher productions, with camerawork that leaves me wondering how it was achieved, and with a masterful ensemble performance that rivals Carpenter's "The Thing," I'm left with nothing less than inexpressable appreciation for all that were involved.
A slow-burn for sure, so don't expect body horror or any sort of gore. But if you appreciate Algernon Blackwood's 'The Willows' or stories of that sort, you've got a great surprise in store. Highly recommended.
I just finished Jugface and the thought occured to me. Although he is rarely, if ever, in the limelight, he is always a pleasure in whatever role he's playing. I love watching a horror movie and being pleasantly surprised by his presence. He is arguably the horror genre's greatest character actor of the era.
In addition to his acting, he is a great contributor behind the scenes, and his podcast Tales From Beyond The Pale is solid, too.
Do we know if they’re writing all the Dark Pictures games? I loved their work on Until Dawn and I’m a huge fan of Fessenden’s films and his Glass Eye Pix productions. His stuff is massively underrated and almost always interesting (Last Winter is my favorite), so I’m happy to see him getting continued work!
🎃Welcome to the fourth week of Horror Club.🎃
This week's theme is amour fou, movies featuring destructive or horrific romantic relationships involving blood, vampirism or cannibalism, and death.
Vampires are maybe the most romantic of the traditional horror monsters (and sexier than ghosts). These movies are about people who find themselves, or believe they find others, escaping from the bonds of "human". Whether by returning from the dead or being a vampire or just being someone who likes to eat human flesh. The trouble with being the immortal undead is that while many problems of human life are gone one remains, the need for constant fresh blood (insert whatever metaphor you like here) that means you have to keep finding victims or willing volunteers. Problems also arise when the one you love isn't also a vampire, or when you make your lover a vampire.
An unintentional theme is how many scientists or academics are the ones to find themselves in these strange circumstances (Trouble Every Day, Ganja and Hess, Szamanka, The Hunger). This is also accidentally the most auteur driven week and the week with mostly movies from directors who don't/didn't' mostly do horror.
Image dump of stolen screencaps from around the internet: https://imgur.com/a/obOciDm
Trouble Everyday (2001) France- Starring Vincent Gallo (Buffalo '66, The Brown Bunny) as an American honeymooning in Paris with his new wife and seeking out his former colleagues for answers on his strange condition. Elsewhere in Paris, Coré (played by Béatrice Dalle, of Betty Blue, Inside, Night on Earth, The Blackout) is kept captive by her lover Dr. Léo Sémeneau (played by Alex Descas, of 35 Shots of Rum, many other Denis movies, Coffee and Cigarettes) because she has an insatiable desire to kill and eat men post coitus. Directed by French auteur Claire Denis (Beau Travail, High Life, Bastards, I Can't Sleep, and many other films).
Streaming on Hoopla.
Ganja and Hess (1973) United States- Written, acted in, and directed by genius Bill Gunn (writer of The Landlord and writer/director of Personal Problems). Anthropologist Dr. Hess Green becomes a vampire after being stabbed by his troubled assistant (played by Gunn) with a mysterious Myrthian dagger. The assistant's wife, Ganja, soon comes looking for her husband and enters a relationship with Dr. Hess, joining him in vampirism. Starring Marlene Clark (Midnight Cowboy, Enter the Dragon, The Landlord, Putney Swo
... keep reading on reddit ➡Just finished Man of Medan and one of the things that really impressed me about it was the writing. The characters all felt like believable human beings and when one of them would die I actually felt bad. Given how poor the writing in most video games is--as if it were an afterthought at best--the dialogue in Man of Medan really stood out. I can't remember a single instance where I thought "No one would actually say something like that."
So, after finishing Man of Medan, I had really high expectations for Little Hope. But the drop in writing-quality was immediately apparent. One clear sign of bad writing is what I call "forced antagonism." That's where all the characters immediately start bickering with each other for no reason other than the fact that the writer mistakenly believes that conflict is ALWAYS interesting--therefore the more of it the better.
Conflict CAN be interesting but only if it is driven by a believable dynamic between the characters themselves. That's totally absent from Little Hope where as it felt extremely natural in Man of Medan.
I did a little research and discovered that Larry Fessenden was one of the writers for Man of Medan. I'm a fan of his film work so that was a happy surprise for me--but I wasn't at all surprised to see that he isn't credited with any of the writing for Little Hope, given how banal it is.
Looks like he wasn't involved with House of Ashes either. I really hope SuperMassive took the time to find and hire decent writers for their third outing as I'm genuinely shocked that they could drop the ball so badly with Little Hope. If ever a series of games lived or died by the quality of the writing and character development within them, it would be this one.
So I'm currently watching a horror film series I had heard of years ago but didn't invest into. This series is "The ABC's of Death" which is a series of collections of short horror films from different directors who had to make a horror short related to death and a letter of the alphabet they were assigned.
I am currently watching the sequel and found this "N for Nexus" to be quite interesting and went into a full analysis about it in my notes.
.....Then I realized the director's name seemed familiar... upon looking him up? You guys may also recognize the name: It's Larry Fessenden who wrote for Until Dawn AND The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan!
I felt it would be interesting to share here for fellow DPA fans: What do you think of one of our writer's attempts at a film? Would you see a full-feature film made by one of our writers/directors or do you think they work best together as a team on the games?
EDIT: I noticed he did this BEFORE the games we love, any speculation on his improvements/what he brought to the team and the games we got?
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
