I've been made aware of this because of its trending on the Criterion channel, and it would be silly to pass up a film with the title Demon Pond!
I would love to read the play this is based on because the staged nature of the source material is apparent all throughout the film. The first 45 minutes or so reminded me a bit of Woman in the Dunes, with the out-of-his-depth scientist going for a hike. A delightfully slow…
A contender for coolest movie poster of all time. I'm sensing that this is the one Wong Kar-Wai film with the most Godard influence. It's also a film that made me notice how far removed the 90s are as a decade; thirty years later, everything feels like history, like a space once felt and now lost. People meet (and disband) purely by chance, there is no ugly messaging after a break-up. They move on, one more scar on their soul,…
Hooptober 11: 22/31
I've been tangentially aware of the Elvira character, but I never watched the show or any of the movies, or anything she's been featured in, really. What a pleasant surprise to find out that her character is everything that Halloween is about: She's embracing her own nature, she's in tune with the dark spirits, she's being sassy to the establishment. She's also very popular with the teenage crowd... yeah, for her looks, too, but as the movie…
Hooptober 11: 9/31
The real horror was the rowdy audience in that movie theatre.
Judging from other reviews in these parts the consensus seems that this is derivative of the original? Isn't that part of the tongue-in-cheek DNA of this series? What's more, I found many of the scenes to be much more memorable -- some tense setups like the car scene or the opening scene in the theatre actually have more going on than just winking at the audience.…
