what was the last movie you saw?

[okidoke]

The Two Headed Spy (1958) I watched this version at archive.org There's a colorized version, but I'm not a big fan of those awful yellow, purple and bronze tones.

 

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Cocaine Werewolf (2024)

After 'Cocaine Bear' there seems to be a Cocaine everything.

Jamie Morgan and Greta Volkova

Why is it that when you come across blood at work, you have to treat it as possibly containing
a bloodborne pathogen but when you run across blood in a movie, the first thing you do is
stick your finger in it and rub it around?

 

[okidoke]

This was awesome and hilarious. Recommended!

 

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Killers from Space (1954)

"An atomic scientist claims he was abducted by aliens after being injured in a plane crash."

I had read that over 40% of this movie was stock footage. I believe this is the first time that I ever
thought "more stock footage and less original content would be good."

Peter Graves, Shepard Menken and Barbara Bestar

 

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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

 

[okidoke]

Fallen Angel 1945 (link to film at archive.org) A man is accused of killing a waitress he had tried to seduce with his wife''s money.

 

[okidoke]

Saboteur 1942 (link to film at archive.org)
A young aircraft worker (Bob Cummings) is accused of sabotage and must go on the run to prove his innocence. As he makes his way across the country all the way from California to New York, he meets a young woman (Priscilla Lane) who helps him. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock

Priscilla Lane as Patricia "Pat" Martin, Robert Cummings as Barry Kane, Otto Kruger as Charles Tobin, Alan Baxter as Freeman, Clem Bevans as Neilson & Norman Lloyd as Frank Fry. Normal Lloyd died at 106 years old in 2021.

 

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The Emu War (2023)

Claims to be "based on the infamous Great Emu War of 1932" though it might me more accurate
to say that the "Emu War" inspired the film since 'based on' seems to imply that there is some reality to it.

 

[okidoke]

Street of Chance 1942 (link to film at archive.org)
Waking up with amnesia after an accident, a mild-mannered New Yorker (Burgess Meredith) is told that he left his wife (Louise Platt) a year earlier, started a torrid affair with a sexy blonde (Claire Trevor), and has become a murder suspect sought by the police. What is he to believe?

One of the early examples of "film noir" that helped define the genre. Based on the novel "The Black Curtain" by Cornell Woolrich.

Burgess Meredith as Frank Thompson / Danny Nearing, Claire Trevor as Ruth Dillon, Louise Platt as Virginia Thompson, Sheldon Leonard as Joe Marruci,
Frieda Inescort as Alma Diedrich, Jerome Cowan as Bill Diedrich

 

[user 191197]

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. It wasn't bad but not as good as the first one. Too many pointless characters and side plots which didn't go anywhere, the humor was not as clever and subtle as in the first one. It felt bloated and empty at the same time, too many scenes were too long, killing the humor (Like the cake scene which would have been great if it was cut down to half). And Beetlejuice was barely Beetlejuice, he was too melancholic, too nice. The ending was also way too convenient.

 

[reynard_muldrake]

I watched both the original and extended cut. I prefer the original, as the longer edit simplifies the mystery.

 

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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

Thinking about getting around to watching the first one.

 

[user 191197]

Thinking about getting around to watching the first one

I can recommend it. The mix of humor and horror elements are perfect. The Maitlands were also much better protagonists and Beetlejuice a much better antagonist. It has a faster pace and a better story, even the cinematography was better.

 

[WanderingInTheWoods]

Beautiful Boy

 

[Draven]

Evil Dead Rise was a blood bath

 

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Meteor (1979)

Quite a cast of stars from that day but was still considered to be a box office flop.

TV guide calls it "An $18 million, star-studded disaster film, which in itself is a major disaster"

Available on Pluto TV and Tubi plus some of the pay services.

 

[TheRealCallie]

I decided to finally watch The Conjuring franchise in chronological order. I watched The Nun last night, just finished Annabelle: Creation and now I'm on to The Nun 2.

 

[user 191197]

I don't get what people like about the Conjuring series. I don't find it scary or creepy. Hereditary is a lot better in every way, from writing/plot to acting to cinematography and score/sound design. It gave me goosebumps which happens rarely when watching a horror movie. It's a good example of how refrigerator horror outperforms cheap jumpscares.

 

[TheRealCallie]

I don't get what people like about the Conjuring series. I don't find it scary or creepy. Hereditary is a lot better in every way, from writing/plot to acting to cinematography and score/sound design. It gave me goosebumps which happens rarely when watching a horror movie. It's a good example of how refrigerator horror outperforms cheap jumpscares.

I suppose each person is different on what type of horror they go for. You have slasher/gore horror, psychological horror and paranormal/jump scare horror. I watch all of them, but I tend to dislike slasher horror. You have hit or miss on whether any of them are actually good or not. Hereditary was a pretty damn good movie, though.

After The Conjuring series, I plan to jump into some Hitchcock. Every year, from mid September to Halloween, I watch pretty much entirely horror. (Not that I don't watch horror the rest of the year, mind you). It's a tradition. I also throw in some Disney Halloween movies.

 

[Punisher]