J.T. Posted November 25, 2021 Author Share Posted November 25, 2021 (edited) Well, now. Episode 2 of Yellowjackets finally gets to the fateful plane crash and is starting to explore the dynamics between the girls on the team. There is plenty of gore to go around. Misty (played by Christina Ricci as an adult and the brilliant Sammi Hanratty as a child) is batshit crazy, who knew? Spoiler It turns out that the reason it takes so long for authorities to find the team is that Misty smashes the flight recorder. Misty is the DUFF of the team, but her EMT skills turn her into a superhero when she tends to the wounded after the crash. Naturally she does not want to relinquish this role and acts accordingly. The surviving Yellowjackets are the biggest collection of hot messes ever. It's a pretty fun show to watch. If I am not in a food coma, I'll try to go see Resident Evil tonight. Edited November 25, 2021 by J.T. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted November 26, 2021 Share Posted November 26, 2021 I forgot to mention something I figured out about the Phibes movies this morning: they are really Saw films for the '70s crowd. Everything is tongue-in-cheek but it's still people getting locked into hopeless traps getting murdered. They were clearly slasher movies before slasher movies (look at Price's Theatre of Blood for another example) but definitely Saw movies before Saw. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted November 26, 2021 Author Share Posted November 26, 2021 (edited) I did not make it to the movies last night. The food coma was too overpowering and Cowboys - Raiders was compelling television.. I'll try to catch an early matinee of RE on Saturday if I am not overcome by laziness and stay home to play GreedFall or Guardians of the Galaxy or decide to take in the Butcher Brown concert at the Camel on Saturday night. Edited November 26, 2021 by J.T. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 Oh fuck. Bomb officially dropped. https://www.fangoria.com/original/nicolas-cage-joins-universals-renfield-as-dracula/ This is gonna be wild. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted December 1, 2021 Author Share Posted December 1, 2021 10 hours ago, Curt McGirt said: Oh fuck. Bomb officially dropped. https://www.fangoria.com/original/nicolas-cage-joins-universals-renfield-as-dracula/ This is gonna be wild. Dolfan hates your posts and the Horror Thread. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 4 minutes ago, J.T. said: Dolfan hates your posts and the Horror Thread. Tattletale. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted December 1, 2021 Author Share Posted December 1, 2021 I couldn't help it. It was low hanging fruit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Curt McGirt Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 (edited) If you want to get your Black Christmas on early this year it's running on Comet. I don't know how many airings it'll be but worth looking into. EDIT: It's On Demand on Dish ($) and on Comet again Monday, 8 AM Central. Edited December 6, 2021 by Curt McGirt 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted December 6, 2021 Author Share Posted December 6, 2021 1 hour ago, Curt McGirt said: If you want to get your Black Christmas on early this year it's running on Comet. I don't know how many airings it'll be but worth looking into. EDIT: It's On Demand on Dish ($) and on Comet again Monday, 8 AM Central. It is also on in its uncensored glory on Peacock, Pluto TV, Tubi, XUMO, and probably more services. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted December 6, 2021 Author Share Posted December 6, 2021 (edited) Yellowjackets continues to be pretty awesome. I am not so much interested in the adults solving the mystery about who is stalking them than I am about learning more about the ongoing saga of the cheerleaders decent into madness and cannibalism. I cannot tell if Karyn Kusama is supporting feminism or satirizing it. On the one hand, there is the idea that girls know when to abandon male-driven societal norms in favor of the survival of the greater group (ie. If Lord of the Flies had been about women, they'd all be Hunters) and on the other hand, there is the implication that things will go batshit simply because women are capable of being more vicious than men, are naturally catty and competitive with one another, and cannot get along with each other. It is interesting to see how paranoia is slowly destroying the lives of the adults, except for batshit crazy Misty who has fully embraced her inner crazy. The late 90's soundtrack is also pretty awesome. Edited December 6, 2021 by J.T. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 (edited) I didn't think there was anything to cut out of Black Christmas but I think there was a corpse reveal quickly cut at one point, then again usually they just blur stuff on Comet and it could have been a choice that Bob Clark made. I haven't seen it in awhile. I watched the opening credits of Yellowjackets and that was freaky enough. I still haven't decided whether I'm too far in to bother watching but it's been recording. Dexter I've watched scraps of, the last episode I saw a good chunk and shit is really hitting the fan next episode. At this point I think I've followed enough and might go all in and watch everything. EDIT: Shit, I have all five episodes of Yellowjackets recorded and none of Dexter? Edited December 6, 2021 by Curt McGirt 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 Dave Bautista will star in the next M. Night Shyamalan movie Knock at the Cabin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted December 14, 2021 Author Share Posted December 14, 2021 (edited) Okay.. Yellowjackets is starting to freak me out. Spoiler Supernatural elements are now in play. The girls preformed a mock seance to try to communicate with the spirit of the hunter that they found dead in the lodge apparently possessed the body of one of the Yellowjackets and chaos reigned. The story of the adults is not as compelling, but it is still interesting to see how the bad shit that happened in the woods continues to plague them. The more I see how crazy the lives of the adult Yellowjackets are, it just makes me want to see more about how the girls devolved into a tribe of cannibals. Shauna turning the tables on her daughter's attempt at blackmail was fucking awesome, though. Edited December 14, 2021 by J.T. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted December 15, 2021 Author Share Posted December 15, 2021 Showtime continues to deliver the A24 goodness. In Fabric is now on heavy rotation and is available on SHO OnDemand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted December 16, 2021 Share Posted December 16, 2021 They fucking better have it on again. There was one airing last week and no future showings listed. BTW, their documentaries have been as good as Attica and the DMX one recently. The ones on Ricky Powell and Music Box are great, and there's one on train graffiti artists called Rolling Like Thunder listed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted December 16, 2021 Share Posted December 16, 2021 There’s a joe bob Xmas special this week. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted December 21, 2021 Author Share Posted December 21, 2021 On 12/15/2021 at 10:47 PM, Curt McGirt said: They fucking better have it on again. There was one airing last week and no future showings listed. It's been on a few times. It's coming on tonight @ 9:35PM EDT right after the debut of IT COMES AT NIGHT~! Soon the entire A24 horror catalog should be rotating in and out of SHO OnDemand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 GAH! Not only is it not listed again but on the guide the "Showtimes" button even turned into a "Watch Trailer" button. It's already half an hour in. Fuckers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 You Won't Be Alone (dir. Goran Stolevski) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 Side note: Rawhead Rex is still the utter shits Poor Clive actually wrote that one. What a terrible job on all counts (except for the deacon, he was impressively insane) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted December 21, 2021 Author Share Posted December 21, 2021 Rawhead Rex is pretty bad even for an ogre movie and it totally misses the point of the short story. That being said, I don't think you could've made a faithful adaptation of Rawhead Rex back then (or even now) and not earned an NC-17 rating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted December 21, 2021 Share Posted December 21, 2021 https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/Clive-Barker-s-Rawhead-Rex This is really the perfect visual adaptation of the story. I think if they could animate it or do a live action version it would work, except it would miss Barker's prose unless you had a voiceover, which... well, it'd be weird, but might work? It is a story with long beats of no dialogue so kind of hard to do anyway. And you wanna talk NC-17, that is also so NSFW you should probably be spanked if you do read it there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted December 23, 2021 Author Share Posted December 23, 2021 (edited) Holy fuck, dudes. Yellowjackets is getting serious. Spoiler One of the girls (Shauna) is probably pregnant with the kid of her best friend's boyfriend. They are married in the adult plotline, but it is hard to tell if the child she is having as a teen is her daughter in the adult part. Shauna just attempted to abort her baby and didn't go through with it. Lots of wild shit is going on. Misty totally scares the shit out of me. Edited December 23, 2021 by J.T. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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