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alright so, ive definitely seen this multiple times as a kid with my mom. and when i was a kid all the special effects looked incredible and i loved the nautilus the most...
this movie is so racist and misogynist, with a dash of homophobia (cmon... the literal dorian gray in a straight romance... but since hes evil its fine villainism to be a bit of a dandy).
somehow this movie is MCU before the MCU
im watching this super tired and dont necessarily have much to say but this movie was nothing i expected and took me by surprise.
this movie was very white, but on the other hand the seeming politics around LGBT topics surprised me, as in, this movie couldve very early on veered into super transmisogynist territory but then just didnt (thankfully), though yeah, f slur was thrown around at the point (from the antagonist, tbf)
women were making out, a glam…
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okay so. the vampire parts are great and really enjoyable!
the innkeeper character is really antisemitic, way beyond coincidental and just actively horribly malicious. it was awful. hes also portrayed as a sex pest and other horrible things.
the vampire son is really funny and so on, but hes gay because hes evil, and he assaults the main character boy alfred (even if its kind of glossed over).
also, huge misogyny alert, and of course we needed a disabled henchman…
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to me, this is the platonic ideal of a remake: it takes the source material and elevates it. suspiria (1977) is a beautiful but lacks substance, argentos aesthetics over plot coherency striking again.
figuring things out during my first watch (and no german subs, only my german knowledge) was so satisfying, and i feel like i can get even more out of this movie on a rewatch knowing everything i now know, and being able to unclench about worrying the…
