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Fathom Zero · #**3826**

Dreams reminds me of this. Not that they're similar or anything. They're just connected in my mind.

Don't let the French mingle with the Japanese. They make scary and beautiful things.

Fathom Zero · #**3827**

And on a different note, who else likes not-happy endings?

kahljorn · #**3828**

Aarg you would probably like this Furin Kazan movie. Its the first samurai movie Ive seen with a change of seasons. The winter scenes are really pretty

the only thing that sucks is that its a historical movie about a famous strategist but it skips over most of the battles.
oh and i guess there'sa tvshow of it im talking about the 1960 or so movie produced/starring Toshiro Mifune

Tadao · #**3829**

How about Kung Fu? Yeah I know it isn't as awesome as watching Japs run around flailing swords over their heads to scare off peasants, but this movie was pretty nice.

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV...638_SY945_.jpg

kahljorn · #**3830**

that link is broken lol

also I watched that remake of Hara-Kiri that came out last year and that movie is pretty damned amazing
and this movie called Revenge that they had on netflix was pretty good

kahljorn · #**3831**

ismy new signature too much?

Tadao · #**3832**

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1425257/

Maybe this one then

kahljorn · #**3833**

ah ya ive seen tht on netflix b4 ill try watching it

I really like IP Man and IP Man 2 -- especially since they are based on true stories. The second one I thought was particularly good.

Kitsa · #**3834**

That Beyond credit music sounds like some tinny Mysterious Cities of Gold shit

Also, what is it with eyeballs. People flip the fuck out over eyeballs being not-right.

Fathom Zero · #**3835**

It's implied that they're blind and have resigned themselves to being in a hellish wasteland with "all therein that may be explored."

I wrote a paper on giallo, too, which turned me onto a bunch of films I hadn't seen before. Italian pulp horror rules something fierce. Peoples getting murdered left and right.

kahljorn · #**3836**

that dude looked pretty terrified for someone resigned to their fate

i guess he could just be in awe.

also id think its an allusion to dante's inferno but im not a very abstract thinker

King Hadas · #**3837**

I thought it was a Lovecraftian thing. They saw something they couldn't unsee and now they're changed forever (goldeyes). To be honest though I don't think they put much thought into these thing. Lucio or whatever his name is probably just thought it would look cool.

Fathom Zero · #**3838**

Also a good point. Vision is important to the plot of the movie, with the big baddie being an old painter. They'd been thrown into the nightmarescape he was painting earlier in the movie.

Freaky eyes is a good visual cue that something warped went on in someone's head, even almost ending up hacky here. But I thought the set, the acting, and the score during the finale just made the whole thing beautiful.

Mario and Lamberto Bava's movies are my favorites, though. Argento can feel too artsy if someone's not up for that type of movie. But Demons is one of my favorite movies of all time. Excellent visuals and makeup, along with a plot that doesn't pull punches. EVERYONE IN THIS THEATER MUST DIE.

ESPECIALLY THE BADASS PIMP.

Fathom Zero · #**3839**

Parajanov was also important to me.

kahljorn · #**3840**

Quote:

I thought it was a Lovecraftian thing. They saw something they couldn't unsee and now they're changed forever (goldeyes).

yea thats the other thing i was thinking. Kinda like in the one lovecraft movie where the thing grows out of his head and he basically starts seeing with his 3rdeye.

I'd really go for the Dante thing though, "Into the blind world we now descend." Isn't the director Italian?

Fathom Zero · #**3841**

Very much so. Italian horror and horror literature is a very distinct thing, reaching wayyyyyyy back, especially to Dante.

Kitsa · #**3842**

I would go for Dante over Lovecraft. I guess it's more the timing of weirdeyes than anything. This was one of those instances that felt like a grand, sweeping directorial gesture..."and now...weirdeyes."

As opposed to, say, Event Horizon, that might as well have been renamed "Surprise, No Eyeballs!"

Fathom Zero · #**3843**

SAM NEILL

All Hail Duke · #**3844**

vampires-one of if not the last good carpenter movie

Babs · #**3845**

Treating myself to two of my favorite movies today, Tenebrae and Tourist Trap, on the best format ever, VHS.

By the way Fathom, I watched a good half hour of the video you posted entitled "Color of Pomegranates" and it really reminded me of Jiri Barta, with the exception that Barta mainly does stop motion instead.

Fathom Zero · #**3846**

Neato.

Aaarg · #**3847**

yeah jiri barta makes awesome short films.

also demons is fucking excellent. i don't like giallos as much as i like italian supernatural horror filmz.

dario argento's very hit-or-miss-and-mostly-miss, but i recently re-watched phenomena and it's totally cool except the chimp and i feel like i already posted here.

kalhlrjkorn i will have to check out that movie because of the cover:

also kung fu movies are great too