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Post by Tomo on Oct 27, 2021 23:47:57 GMT
Well, I've just watched a contender for this thread. Jesus.
Miss Violence. Greek film which follows a very odd family after one of the children commits suicide.
Won't say any more, as best to go in blind like I did I think.
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Post by Tomo on Oct 27, 2021 23:48:17 GMT
On MUBI currently btw
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Post by Aunt Alison on Oct 28, 2021 1:50:01 GMT
Well, I've just watched a contender for this thread. Jesus. Miss Violence. Greek film which follows a very odd family after one of the children commits suicide. Won't say any more, as best to go in blind like I did I think. What the hell, man
Don't go into this blind. It just made me sad. Stopped watching at the very graphic and violent child multiple rape scene
I kept watching hoping it wasn't what it seemed but fuck that scene and this film
And don't recommend films like this without a warning
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Oct 28, 2021 2:03:09 GMT
I don't know about that specific case, but there's certain things that are definitely better to go into knowing nothing about. Audition is one, to the point that I've told people "Hey you should watch this and not even look at posters or trailers or reviews or anything", because the best thing about that movie is how jarring the tonal shift is.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Oct 28, 2021 2:10:35 GMT
I just read what happens at the end of the film - it's just about abuse
"We discover that for Angeliki, her act was the only possible way to find any sort of freedom, as her aunt had told her that eleven was considered by their patriarch as the appropriate age to commence sexual violence towards her. One of the children tries to reach out to her teacher, but that doesn't lead anywhere. Instead, she is forced into prostitution.
Once the matriarch finds out, she kills her husband. One of their daughters discovers the father's body the day after. She rejoices, since for her, her sister and children it represents the end of oppression and prostitution. Once in the kitchen, however, she finds her mother, who orders her to lock the door, implying that the nightmare will continue. " |
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Oct 28, 2021 2:12:23 GMT
Yeah fair enough, I'd definitely content-warning that.
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Post by Tomo on Oct 28, 2021 7:29:08 GMT
Well way to spoil it for everyone. I thought it was pretty good. We're not talking Mordum levels of distasteful shite. It's well made and won various awards.
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Post by Vandelay on Oct 28, 2021 7:52:46 GMT
*That* moment in Hereditary. Where a moment in a film suddenly and completely upends what you think this film is going to be about, and you're fully on edge for the rest of it. The official title for that film will always be Her Head Hit a Tree , courtesy of someone that wrote into the Mayo and Kermode Film Show. It is a great scene. My viewing was slightly interrupted by a father walking into clearly the wrong screen with his 6ish year old son. He fortuately realised his mistake just seconds before the full visual of what happened is shown. To contribute to this thread, I don't even need a full scene, just the half second shot that closes Saint Maud. This is one of those few times when not leaving something ambiguous or up to your own imagination works incredibly. The diner scene in Mulholland Drive is fantastic, as is the body in the apartment. There are so many scenes from Lynch that could be thrown into the mix (basically all 3 hours of Inland Empire had me on edge). Never had a chance to see his work in cinema and I hope one day I will get to see something fresh from him on the big screen. Not sure if I would be able to take it though. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2021 8:15:52 GMT
Pretty sure I saw Mulholland Drive in the cinema. I think it's one of his best films, which is funny as it was never intended to be a film in the first place.
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Post by JYM60 on Oct 28, 2021 8:30:12 GMT
When I was a kid the Halloween theme tune shot shivers up my spine.
As someone else mentioned, the first scene of Scream scared me a lot as a child and I couldn't watch any more until years later. One of my favourites now.
Candyman original. Especially the scene where she is investigating Cabrini-Green.
Foreign efforts. The bag scene in Audition. Loads of scenes in The Eye, but probably the floating guy with his back turned in the corner of the lift specifically.
More recent. Any scene with the killer in It Follows.
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Post by Buu on Oct 28, 2021 8:46:17 GMT
Another one that scared me as a child and gave me a genuine fear of being abducted by Aliens. The film was called 'U.F.O Abduction'/'The Mcpherson Tape'
It was a 'found footage' style film of a birthday party when Aliens gatecrash the party and start abducting them. Probably very tame for these days but I must've saw it when I was 7 or 8 and I believed it was genuinely real was probably going to happen to me. I had such an irrational fear of aliens growing up that it probably came from this film.
Awful quality but it put the fear of god into me
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Post by MysteryLamb on Oct 28, 2021 8:54:35 GMT
The M Jackson Thriller video, full length version, scared the absolute life out me. It might have been the same night I remember my uncle taking my 2 older sisters out of the living room as he angrily took his belt off, then got them to pretend to scream as he whacked his belt on the stairs. He thought that was funny. 7 year old me did not.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Oct 28, 2021 9:03:54 GMT
Well way to spoil it for everyone. I thought it was pretty good. We're not talking Mordum levels of distasteful shite. It's well made and won various awards. There isn't really anything to spoil. It's obvious from very early on that it's abuse. The only reason I kept watching was because of the watching it blind recommendation, expecting there to be some kind of twist or something to alter my perspective on it. There isn't. It's not even a horror film, it's just misery. Lots of people have kids on this site. If that's the kind of film you enjoy, that's fine and I'm sure it has merits but it needs a content warning
It's my own poor judgement for trusting someone I don't know online really. I do think it was poor judgement to recommend it in the way you did. Not the end of the world though
I'll edit my post for the sake of spoilers but I'm still going to make it clear what people are getting into
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Post by Tomo on Oct 28, 2021 10:35:01 GMT
Wow, okay...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2021 10:41:24 GMT
According to Mark Kermode back in 2014:
"Certainly the audience are made to suffer through scenes that range from the uncomfortable to the unwatchable. The jury at the Venice festival loved it; they are made of sterner stuff than I."
Think I'll give it a pass too. Reminds me of the time my mate watched A Serbian Film and then told me all about it. I asked him why the fuck he continued to watch it. Stuff like that is a no-no for me.
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Post by Tomo on Oct 28, 2021 10:47:39 GMT
I've not seen ASF as that's clearly an attempt to be as distasteful as possible. But fair enough re: Miss Violence. You took the 30 seconds it takes to look up the film and make an informed decision, rather than have a wobbly in a thread about unsettling films.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Oct 28, 2021 10:55:22 GMT
I've not seen ASF as that's clearly an attempt to be as distasteful as possible. But fair enough re: Miss Violence. You took the 30 seconds it takes to look up the film and make an informed decision, rather than have a wobbly in a thread about unsettling films. I'm a little confused as to why you're being a pissy pants about it. My issue isn't with the film, it's with your recommendation to watch it blind and now you're saying it's my fault for not looking it up before watching it. Make up your mind
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Oct 28, 2021 10:56:35 GMT
Tbh I wish one of you would drop it. I don't really care which one  |
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Post by anephric on Oct 28, 2021 10:57:40 GMT
A Serbian Film is so over the top it almost becomes a comedy. Well, it pretty much is, it's obviously a very crude satire. That said I don't have kids, so was a bit more detached.
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Post by Tomo on Oct 28, 2021 11:09:10 GMT
I saw the synopsis and watched it blind as the filmmakers intended. If you have a problem with that, you better take issue with MUBI and any reviewers out there who also didn't spoiler it. Clearly some users are capable of independent thought and not taking internet suggestions as gospel in a thread also talking about decapitations, familial murder, etc etc.
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Post by Tomo on Oct 28, 2021 11:09:26 GMT
Tbh I wish one of you would drop it. I don't really care which one Yeah I'm done. |
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Post by Aunt Alison on Oct 28, 2021 11:15:33 GMT
Tbh I wish one of you would drop it. I don't really care which one Yeah I'm done. Big of ya after getting a couple more personal digs in
For the sake of not shittying up MolarAm's thread I'll drop it. Said everything I needed to about the film
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2021 11:17:23 GMT
I always do enough of a wee looksee to see if there's any child stuff as that gets to me to the point where I can't watch something, but I'm aware not everyone has the same trigger.
Apart from that I think everyone just needs to understand that when watching certain genres of a film blind, there may be an element to it that unsettles you, and just accept if you are intruiged enough to watch it anyway. If you get to a point that unsettles you enough, just turn it off. I don't think Tomo is in the wrong for recommending it, nor do I think AA is in the wrong for being offended, but there's no point in having a wing at each other. Different triggers etc.
I recall when I watched Shutter Island when it came out, pre-child. I totally forgot part of the plot to it, and when watching it more recently with my wife, we were both quite perturbed (her moreso than me) and I wasn't very popular for recommending it!
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Post by JYM60 on Oct 28, 2021 11:28:15 GMT
Well way to spoil it for everyone. I thought it was pretty good. We're not talking Mordum levels of distasteful shite. It's well made and won various awards. There isn't really anything to spoil. It's obvious from very early on that it's abuse. The only reason I kept watching was because of the watching it blind recommendation, expecting there to be some kind of twist or something to alter my perspective on it. There isn't. It's not even a horror film, it's just misery. Lots of people have kids on this site. If that's the kind of film you enjoy, that's fine and I'm sure it has merits but it needs a content warning
It's my own poor judgement for trusting someone I don't know online really. I do think it was poor judgement to recommend it in the way you did. Not the end of the world though
I'll edit my post for the sake of spoilers but I'm still going to make it clear what people are getting into
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Post by Aunt Alison on Oct 28, 2021 11:31:08 GMT
There isn't really anything to spoil. It's obvious from very early on that it's abuse. The only reason I kept watching was because of the watching it blind recommendation, expecting there to be some kind of twist or something to alter my perspective on it. There isn't. It's not even a horror film, it's just misery. Lots of people have kids on this site. If that's the kind of film you enjoy, that's fine and I'm sure it has merits but it needs a content warning
It's my own poor judgement for trusting someone I don't know online really. I do think it was poor judgement to recommend it in the way you did. Not the end of the world though
I'll edit my post for the sake of spoilers but I'm still going to make it clear what people are getting into
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Post by Bill in the rain on Oct 28, 2021 14:16:58 GMT
Having kids does make a bunch of previously 'ha ha the annoying kid got it!' movies into harrowing unwatchable experiences.
I imagine I'd have gotten further with The Babadook if I'd watched it 15 years earlier before having kids.
tho Hereditary didn't move me at all for some reason... I don't remember why. Maybe I was worn out when I watched it or something.
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Post by Kay on Oct 28, 2021 15:41:41 GMT
Well, I've just watched a contender for this thread. Jesus. Miss Violence. Greek film which follows a very odd family after one of the children commits suicide. Won't say any more, as best to go in blind like I did I think. What the hell, man
Don't go into this blind. It just made me sad. Stopped watching at the very graphic and violent child multiple rape scene
I kept watching hoping it wasn't what it seemed but fuck that scene and this film
And don't recommend films like this without a warning
Read the wiki for Miss Violence, and yeah, if it really does have a scene like that then I can totally understand it being a step too far for most people. That said, assuming it doesn't glorify that sort of abuse in any way, this is certainly the correct thread for it. Basically, never go in and watch something *completely* blind - this also applies to many other things on the internet. At the very least, google and read the synopsis first! |
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Post by dfunked on Oct 28, 2021 15:45:01 GMT
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Post by MadCaddy on Oct 28, 2021 15:47:19 GMT
I agree with Bill, I can’t watch anything where a child is in any peril anymore since I’ve had a kid. Just can’t
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2021 15:53:09 GMT
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