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Are there any good spooky Halloween-ish movies in the Criterion vault? All I can think of off the top of my head is Eyes Without a Face.
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Oct 19, 2011 15:59
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http://www.criterion.com/explore/119-scary-movies
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Oct 19, 2011 16:05
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kaujot posted:http://www.criterion.com/explore/119-scary-movies Wow, one of the images they picked for that page is a pretty big spoiler.
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Oct 19, 2011 16:07
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Really? Which? I'm not a big horror fan and haven't seen a fair number of those.
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Oct 19, 2011 16:14
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kaujot posted:Really? Which? I'm not a big horror fan and haven't seen a fair number of those. The Peeping Tom one is basically the big reveal from the ending. I understand that devoid of context it doesn't really matter, but I was still surprised to see it.
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Oct 19, 2011 16:18
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Kart Barfunkel posted:Are there any good spooky Halloween-ish movies in the Criterion vault? Onibaba is pretty freaky.
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Oct 19, 2011 17:18
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Under The Volcano isn't scary, but it's seasonally appropriate 
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Oct 19, 2011 17:24
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I wouldn't really call House a scary movie, but it's spooky. It'd also make for a cool Halloween viewing party.
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Oct 19, 2011 20:34
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Vampyr is their best and creepiest horror movie.
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Oct 19, 2011 20:51
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penismightier posted:Vampyr is their best and creepiest horror movie. Vampyr bored the poo poo outta me the one time I watched it. I was expecting to love it. Anyway their best is clearly The Night of the Hunter or Repulsion.
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Oct 19, 2011 21:04
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I've never considered Night of the Hunter to be anything other than a film noir or thriller, it's a little more stylish and atmospheric than others of its age (excluding Kiss Me Deadly) but it's certainly not horror.
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Oct 19, 2011 21:10
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Thrillers qualify for October viewing, though.
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Oct 19, 2011 21:24
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Why didn't you guys say Carnival of Souls
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Oct 19, 2011 21:39
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barkingclam posted:I wouldn't really call House a scary movie, but it's spooky. It'd also make for a cool Halloween viewing party. House makes for a great drinking game too. I've done it a couple times and the farther you get into the movie, the more drunk and confused your friends get. The rules we use: -Every time you hear the theme song. -Every time one of the girls fulfills her stereotype. (Professor is smart, Kung Fu does kung fu, etc.) -Every time the cat does magic. -Every time someone reacts to the movie in confusion, befuddlement, or general 'WTF' responses, that person must take a drink.
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Oct 19, 2011 22:26
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Friedpundit posted:House makes for a great drinking game too. I've done it a couple times and the farther you get into the movie, the more drunk and confused your friends get. This is an amazing game and I'm stealing it.
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Oct 19, 2011 22:38
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Friedpundit posted:House makes for a great drinking game too. I've done it a couple times and the farther you get into the movie, the more drunk and confused your friends get. I made a drinking game for House too, but mine is a little more hardcore I think. Mine has the first two rules you have, but my third rule is to drink whenever the cat meows, and my fourth is to drink whenever an inanimate object attacks a character. I might just be a lightweight but I've never successfully finished the game.
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Oct 19, 2011 23:24
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Though it is mentioned on that "scary movies" collection page, I just want to stress that Kwaidan is a great place to start, especially if you're working around a viewing where people are bound to drift in and out.
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Oct 20, 2011 05:45
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Jigoku makes for great horror movie fare, namely in the final act.
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Oct 20, 2011 13:22
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Macrame_God posted:Jigoku makes for great horror movie fare, namely in the final act. Agreed. I also like Cronos a lot. It's not particularly scary, but it's a fun movie and has a pretty original take on (mild spoiler) vampires.
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Oct 20, 2011 18:24
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How to Get Ahead in Advertising is pretty creepy when you think about it. Sisters might be a good one as well.
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Oct 20, 2011 19:37
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Macrame_God posted:Jigoku makes for great horror movie fare, namely in the final act. That movie has the same WTF quotient as "House", except it's utterly goddamn disturbing instead of funny. That's one I love showing to people who've never heard of it, because the reaction is always stunned, slack-jawed silence for the last half-hour. Seconding "Onibaba". The mask on the cover is the inspiration for the 'Captain Howdy' face in "The Exorcist". Robert Denby fucked around with this message at 22:11 on Oct 20, 2011 |
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Oct 20, 2011 21:47
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kaujot posted:http://www.criterion.com/explore/119-scary-movies The picture at the top with the face in the reflection. What movie is that?
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Oct 21, 2011 06:08
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bat duck posted:The picture at the top with the face in the reflection. What movie is that? I might be wrong, but I think that's one of the flashes of Charlotte Gainsbourg's face in the train window of Antichrist.
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Oct 21, 2011 16:03
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I was thinking the same thing but I'm not sure though.
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Oct 21, 2011 16:15
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I tried a Tineye search and it brought me over to Corridors of Blood http://www.criterion.com/films/806-corridors-of-blood Which I wanna see now. Edit: Oh, nope, thats not it. It brought me there because that same screenshot was in the corner advertising scary movies. Friedpundit fucked around with this message at 16:44 on Oct 21, 2011 |
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Oct 21, 2011 16:16
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Friedpundit posted:I tried a Tineye search and it brought me over to Corridors of Blood http://www.criterion.com/films/806-corridors-of-blood Yeah, Corridors of Blood is B&W too. In the end I'd place my bets on Antichrist, because that's a forest flickering by in the background, and we know how much Antichrist loves its forests. Someone crazy enough to own it could check, maybe.
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Oct 21, 2011 16:46
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A listing of Criterion blus on sale at Amazon, courtesy of dvdbeaver.
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Oct 21, 2011 19:02
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bat duck posted:The picture at the top with the face in the reflection. What movie is that? DetoxP posted:Someone crazy enough to own it could check, maybe. If you really need to know, you might want to send Criterion an email. Unless someone here does know for sure where it's from.
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Oct 21, 2011 19:24
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It really looks like it's something Japanese, either Jigoku or Kwaidan, or possibly a Nobuo Nakagawa film that they haven't released yet.
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Oct 21, 2011 22:16
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It's Antichrist. I don't own it but then I remembered it was on netflix, so I could just stream it to satisfy my curiosity. I couldn't get the exact frame, but it's pretty evident: http://i.imgur.com/WHtUq.png
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Oct 21, 2011 22:43
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DetoxP posted:It's Antichrist. I don't own it but then I remembered it was on netflix, so I could just stream it to satisfy my curiosity. I couldn't get the exact frame, but it's pretty evident: http://i.imgur.com/WHtUq.png Thanks alot.
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Oct 21, 2011 23:02
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So, after having watched the Kuroneko blu-ray earlier this week, I have to wonder: am I the only one who had problems reading the subtitles? Has anyone else watched this and had the same problem? The subtitles themselves seem so faint and dim compared to other things I've watched. It's like they barely put any shader or shadows behind the letters, so when they're overlaid on an image that has white on it, they really draw attention to themselves because they're so hard to read. The font itself is pretty slim as well. They're not unreadable and I've certainly seen worse, but I kept noticing how much I had to strain to read some of the subtitles in certain scenes. Just wondering if I'm the only one that thought this or if this has been an issue with past Criterion blu-rays.
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Oct 24, 2011 01:49
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I absolutely hate the way Criterion has handled subtitles on bluray. I can't read them at all in many scenes because of the white text on a white image. I've increased contrast, etc., but nothing really helps all that much, and they seem to be oblivious about the issue.
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Oct 24, 2011 01:53
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Subtitles are done out of house, don't expect them to match up to visual standards anytime soon.
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Oct 24, 2011 06:29
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The more pressing issue is that the subtitles still fail the deaf and hard-of-hearing.
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Oct 24, 2011 07:06
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Magic Hate Ball posted:The more pressing issue is that the subtitles still fail the deaf and hard-of-hearing. I watched the Leningrad Cowboys set this weekend and they had optional SDH subtitles.
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Oct 24, 2011 15:33
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Amazon put up some OOP Criterion and Essential Art House DVDs at good prices here. Now's your chance to get Peeping Tom.
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Oct 25, 2011 17:50
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Kull the Conqueror posted:Amazon put up some OOP Criterion and Essential Art House DVDs at good prices here. Thanks for this! Picked up Peeping Tom, Le Trou, and Quai Des Orfevres.
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Oct 25, 2011 18:06
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File name is wacky_skinnycows.jpg. No idea.
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Robert Denby posted:File name is wacky_skinnycows.jpg. No idea. Obviously Kung Pow: Enter The Fist.
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