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| Topic | Board 8 Watches and Ranks 80s Horror - The Rankings |
| Snake5555555555 04/08/24 8:46:28 PM #15: | Lightning - Whats in the basket?
This is a wild piece of cheesy yet grimy exploitation cinema with a premise over the top enough to make it often referenced and intensely memorable. The film also seems to have quite a lot on its mind with regards to the way we view and treat people with disabilities, physical differences and other variations despite this being undercut by its also using these for horror. This film has some surprisingly effective aesthetic choices given its micro budget. IT really captures the sleazy New York atmosphere of the time, making it feel gritty and dangerous rather than glossy, which gives it that genuine 80s feeling. Some of the gore is great. The puppet of Belial is also really impressive, though unfortunately the animated version does not look nearly as good. I also liked quite a lot of the twists and turns in the story, especially the flashback towards the end. Unfortunately the films core message is undercut by using its subject as a monster, despite also trying to make him sympathetic and not deserving of hate. The ending sequence is also weak, contrived, and exploitative. Overall this is a fun distraction but doesnt quite manage to become a genuine camp hit. 2/5 Seginustemple - One of the more blatlantly ridiculous concepts on the list, unfortunately the movie feels asstunted as the titular character. Amateur actors, a thin plot padded with generous filler, and not much flavor on that filler. Granted, on a true shoestring budget of only $35,000 (most of which can be seen in the protagonists' wad of cash) it is by far the cheapest movie we watched, and bound to feel outclassed in production quality - even the likes of Tetsuo and Henry have 6 figures behind them. For its scale it's practically a slam dunk. I think what manages to be entertaining about it is that the brother's deformity hardly renders him handicapped, if anything he seems to possess super strength and abilities for being just a head with forearms. How is he breathing, and where does the food go? Doesn't matter. I kept thinking 'biblically accurate pokemon', like Grimer with a Bib Fortuna skin. The tragedy/pathos of his origin just adds another layer of absurdity, the operation didn't appear to leave either one of them any worse off, so why vengeance? They're untethered and thriving! From now on I'll just assume any wicker basket with a padlock on it is bad news. Inviso - It has been a while watching these lists since a movie has made me feel physically ill while watching it, but here we are. Every single thing about this movie is disgusting. The setting looks grimy and gross, the actors look hideous across the board, and the monster is barely even a monster, but rather a bulging, bulbous tumor with teeth. I knew I was gonna be grossed out just from the initial image of Belial appearing when I loaded up the moviebut godDAMN there is nothing good to say about this film. There are terrible fucking extras and minor characters living in the hotel who are meant to be comedic I think? Theyre all awful, and we get like four of five scenes of a monster attack, screaming, and suddenly the entire building has to run down to check out whats happening. Theyre all awful filler scenes, and they just bloat the runtime of an already mercifully short movie. Hell, the sound is terrible too; there is CONSTANT fucking screaming, but theyre not pleasant movie screams that you hear and you GET that the actor is frightened. No, these are raw, visceral shrieks and wretched agonyESPECIALLY the monster, who can only communicate via vomitous screams. Oh yeah, and multiple instances of attempted rape/molestation by the tumor monster against female characters in this filmwhich of course leads to more screaming. Lovely. I fucking hate this movieits one of the most unpleasant watches Ive had in years of doing these lists. --- I've decided to put my fears behind me. I'm not going back. If you're gonna scream, scream with me ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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