iwokeinrelief

Not horror, but genre-weirdness and the smartest thing I’ve seen in ages - absolutely check out Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes when you get the chance. It made my head spin a bit when it clicked what the director was doing and just how damn difficult it must have been to pull off. Absolutely wonderful.

4 hours ago, radiatorhums said:

I've liked all the Bustillo and Maury movies I've seen up to this (realized I haven't seen Leatherface yet either).   Real big misstep!

I did not realize this was them.
I don’t know why, but nothing I’ve seen of theirs has had much of an impact on me. I didn’t dislike any of them, I just never thought about any of them ever again.

11 minutes ago, radiatorhums said:

The Deep House - I gave up 50 minutes in.  It was so bad that I didn't want to sit through the last 20-30 minutes.  Dialogue is so awful and it's pretty boring.

I’ve not heard one positive thing about this movie so far, which is pretty impressive as I typically see at least some split of opinions in the community with almost all horror movies.

A few things of late:

Ghoul - Indian limited event series based on Arab folklore. A little odd that this was made as a series since it’s only 3 episodes and totals right around a 2.5 hour run time, but other than that note this was great. Each of the episodes fly by, the cast and script are solid, it feels actually original vs derivative, and I am of course a sucker for folklore based horror. I don’t see a ton of talk about this ever which is a shame, as this is one of the better original horror offerings up on Netflix.

Dr Brain - this one is over on Apple+ which sucks - I’ve got a free one year subscription from when my work upgrade my iPhone (😂 - it’s because the phone is tied to my Apple ID) - because this is super great so far, but will likely have only a limited audience due to channel. It’s a mystery/detective show with some horror/paranormal (/sci-if) elements written and directed by Kim Jee-woon who made I Saw the Devil / A Tale of Two Sisters / a number of other films I haven’t seen that I need to remedy. It’s only 3 (of 6) episodes in so far, new episodes come out each Friday, but it is great as of the halfway point.

Other movies I saw recently: Hall (good but too short / more a good idea than a fully fleshed out movie); Found Footage 3D (pretty basic found footage movie with a handful of meta elements that work to various effect; the climax is a bit bonkers as it’s pretty slow burn until the last 15 minutes and then it just abruptly goes nuts); The Gate (dumb + fun 80’s horror - Steven Dorff’s acting debut! - that is tame enough to be a decent family film / kid-intro to horror); Alone (not the awesome/tense-AF American film from last year, the Thai follow-up film from the directors of Shutter. Shutter was better but this was still fun).

Hope y’all have a great holiday and eat yourselves dumb on Thursday! Got my vegan meal on order and am looking forward to making pumpkin pie and eating the entire thing + a whole tub of coconut cream cool whip all by myself (which is my thanksgiving tradition 😂)!

I guess the blue variant sold out? It doesn’t appear to be listed at all any more.

The Pop Unknown reissues are up on both Thirty Something (https://thirtysomethingrecords.bigcartel.com/) and New Granada (https://newgranada.bigcartel.com/) now.

Oh, cool, so you read Hogfather right before Jingo; Death's monologue towards the end of that book is one of my favorite passages across all of what Pratchett wrote.

I think I read Good Omens first as well (for me it was '98, so 23 years ago), but I was working at a bookstore at the time and remember that I'd bought a couple Discworld novels along with it, so I just dove right in from there.

15 minutes ago, Rip said:

Randomly decided to watch Kuso on Shudder this morning.  I remember hearing about it years ago and how weird and gross it was and finally felt like checking it out.

 

 

 

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It was as good as something like that could be I guess haha.  Felt like a David Lynch/Adult Swim fever dream.  Definitely was pretty gross but I’ve seen quite a bit of fucked up stuff in my years of watching horror so it probably wasn’t as crazy to me as it might be to others.  Hard to recommend something like this but I guess check it out if you’re a fan of David Lynch and Adult Swims random gross stuff.

I love David Lynch but not random gross stuff.  I'm tempted, but i think this probably not for me. 😂

4 hours ago, mameeshkamowskwoz said:

As of last night I'm officially more than halfway through Discworld! I started reading them in 2013 and was keeping a pretty good pace, but when Terry passed away books started getting hard to request through my local library system and it kind of killed my momentum.

Honestly my favorite series of all time.  I think i've read every one of them like 4-5 times and they really never get old for me.  If you're reading in order you've got some really amazing stuff in front of you!

Ugh I want this so bad but I’m only seeing $45 as the cheapest shipping and nope.

Just now, JohnMatrix said:

My copy from Amazon came in a LP mailer wrapped in bubble wrap inside of a giant box. Sometimes their pack jobs are hilarious. Either way it was the green/white

This was basically mine as well. The couple local warehouses around here always overkill the vinyl packaging, which I of course appreciate.

We watched Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil last night.  It's a Basque-language folklore-driven (based on the Basque version of the Smith and Devil story) quasi-horror flick.  It's a lot like Tummbad where it overlaps way more with fantasy than horror, but it does frequently get slapped with the horror descriptor whenever i read about.  It was a good watch, definitely entertaining, but I liked it from the folklore/mythology angle (i love cultural mythology as produced by members of the actual culture), as it really only ends up horror-adjacent.

Looks like a bunch of delays:

https://recordstoreday.com/NewsItem/9878

WILL BE COMING TO RECORD STORES ON DECEMBER 10, 2021:
Dave Davies - Kinked
Emoi - Willy's Wonderland
Freeze - Rabid Reaction
Gladiators -- 1983 The Nighthawk EP
Chuck Prophet - No Other Love
Lou Reed and Kris Kristofferson - The Bottom Line Archive Series
Spoon - "Wild"/"Wild Remix"
Sun Ra - Omniverse [CD]
Sun Ra - Omniverse [LP]
Swirlies - They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days In The Glittering World Of The Salons
WILL BE COMING TO RECORD STORES ON DECEMBER 17, 2021:
Tank and The Bangas - The Big Outside
WILL BE COMING TO RECORD STORES FOR RECORD STORE DAY 2022:
Angelo Badalamenti - Blue Velvet (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Deluxe Edition)
Souren Baronian - The Middle Eastern Soul of Carlee Records 
The Jim Carroll Band - Catholic Boy (Deluxe)
Alice Cooper - Brutal Planet 
The Grouch - Show You The World 
High Pulp - Mutual Attraction Vol. 3
The Jacka - Tear Gas 
The Jackson 5 ABC 
LA Guns - Waking the Dead 
Night Ranger - Somewhere in California
Rockness Monsta (of Heltah Skeltah) - He's On Fire b/w Faith
Gavin Rossdale – WANDERlust 
Twiztid - I Tried 2 Warn U 
Various Artists - Stubbs The Zombie: The Soundtrack
WE’RE STILL WAITING ON FURTHER INFORMATION: 
Clairo - Sling
David Crosby & Graham Nash - Wind On The Water 
Foo Fighters - Making A Fire (Mark Ronson Re-Version) b/w Chasing Birds (Preservation Hall Jazz Band Re-Version) 
Thelonious Monk Septet - Monk's Music 
Poison - Flesh & Blood
Puscifer - Existential Reckoning: Live at Arcosanti
Tesla - Mechanical Resonance 
Kali Uchis - Sin Miedo (Del Amor y Otros Demonios)
Various Artists - Latin Legends Live

Checked out an Argentinian slasher from 2020 called The Last Matinee last night. Really well put together flick, production is top notch, doesn’t mess around with an overly complicated plot or backstory, just a dude killing people in a theater. Looks great, entertaining, and just generally a lot of fun if you’re a slasher fan.

20 hours ago, iwokeinrelief said:

I like that one! Now I’m intrigued as to what Amazon will deliver to me tomorrow…

Hell yeah, got that green and white variant!

14 hours ago, iwokeinrelief said:

Yeah, I’ve heard nothing at this point that makes me want to check out the others, but I’d seen positive feedback around the second one — glad I checked it out! I loved the first one so much like 15 years ago. It occurred to me while I was watching 2 that I really need to revisit it.

Went ahead and hit that re/visit this morning. The original remains one of the best of all the found footage genre.

3 minutes ago, Rip said:

[REC] straight into [REC]2  are a couple of my favorites from that “genre.”  It’s too bad the 2 after fell pretty short in comparison 

Yeah, I’ve heard nothing at this point that makes me want to check out the others, but I’d seen positive feedback around the second one — glad I checked it out! I loved the first one so much like 15 years ago. It occurred to me while I was watching 2 that I really need to revisit it.

2 minutes ago, A_Boring_Story said:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CWJ43QFvxmF/?utm_medium=copy_link

I like that one! Now I’m intrigued as to what Amazon will deliver to me tomorrow…

I’ve been sitting on the sofa all day with “day after Covid-vaccine” malaise. Watched:

Lamb - solid as hell. Firmly weird fiction as opposed to horror though. Really enjoyed it.

Haunted Mansion - the 2015 Filipino horror flick, not the Disney one. it was not good!

[REC]2 - never saw this even though I loved the first one back when it came out on DVD. This was pretty decent; I really like horror sequels that pick up immediately after the original (especially because *so damn many* horror movies, even good ones, end with some stupid jump scare / haha this isn’t over) and this did that well.

Man, I don’t know anything about early Ween - so Buckingham Green was bouncing around way before The Mollusk?

1 hour ago, jhulud said:

 

Nabbed this one fo'sho! 

 

 

yeah, that was really the only one i felt i had to have; grabbed it quickly!

Had a fairly ho-hum spate of viewing here recently.

Watched that Korean flick The Clsoet that recently popped up on Shudder - it's a pretty average k-horror movie.  Not bad but not really recommended either.

Watched a few Koji Shiraishi movies due to how amazing Noroi is, but found them all underwhelming - A Slit-Mouthed Woman and Shirome are both pretty skippable, and Occult is fine but falls apart in the final third.

Also watched a tawdry/trashy late-80's Giallo called Too Beautiful to Die which was basically as good as expected (not very, but it was entertaining enough).

2 minutes ago, Daiei said:

Lots of complaints about sound quality on discogs...anyone care to share reviews here?

 

https://www.discogs.com/master/2363104-Radiohead-Kid-A-Mnesia

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On 11/4/2021 at 9:42 AM, whoa said:

Got mine in today and did a quick comparison of the Kid A 10" vs this (red). Basically sound the same, but I'd say this newer press sounds better than my 10" copy, the bass is deeper without affecting the mids and highs. Kid A is squeezed hard onto each side in comparison to the other two LPs in the set. I feel the only track that suffers is Motion Picture Soundtrack; It's not a dealbreaker that is has the slightest, I mean ever so slightest, sibalent artefacts on the singing, but I only noticed because after my first playback I hopped through the 10" and that's really not fair (no one's going to do that every playback, are they?)! It could be the slight warp my copy has, or it could be how it sounds, but I'm hardly going to be playing both side by side to nitpick, I imagine the other two LPs will sound just as great. Solid mastering to get this to fit, so well done to them.

12 minutes ago, erousso said:

I just checked Amazon and it’s telling me I should receive the album on Friday. Anyone else’s Amazon pre-order showing that it’s shipped?

Mine doesn’t show shipped but it does show it is expected to be delivered Friday.