You have to be religious for that to be scary, is what I'm getting at
― Josefa, Sunday, 8 October 2023 00:19 (six months ago) link
I wasn't particularly religious as a kid, certainly wasn't raised with anything approaching religious regularity, but the idea terrified me. I think I accepted the idea of malevolent beings and, probably more relevant, the idea of loss of control of oneself.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Sunday, 8 October 2023 00:25 (six months ago) link
First time, soon after release, at a drive-in in the States: me, my mom, my cousin, and my aunt. My cousin Glen and I were 12. I'm quite sure our moms weren't quite prepared for what we saw.
― clemenza, Sunday, 8 October 2023 00:31 (six months ago) link
― Josefa, Saturday, October 7, 2023 8:19 PM bookmarkflaglink
I brought a Pazuzu action figure to my showing and pretty much am Team Satan and I find it terrifying as hell
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Sunday, 8 October 2023 02:32 (six months ago) link
Thing is horror films don't have to be relatable to be scary if the film is framed right
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Sunday, 8 October 2023 02:33 (six months ago) link
yeah its simply not a true statement imo
maybe if you go in ready to demonstrate yr atheism cool and make a point of not getting into the movie but otherwise its as scary as any other horror concept
xps im curious as to the parts of the shining that arent explicitly supernatural by the end of the movie tbh
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Sunday, 8 October 2023 07:50 (six months ago) link
I think you will probably find The Exorcist scary if you believe in God or know anything about exorcisms - but the possession is the thing, right? The loss of bodily autonomy is a big theme in horror, that it happens to an innocent child is another, that it’s fully gloves off in the approach is another. I grew up hearing about exorcisms and how scary they allegedly were so it certainly struck that chord for me. But it’s a scary fucking film outside that!
― I’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Sunday, 8 October 2023 08:28 (six months ago) link
For an exorcism film which is anti-church (iirc just utterly corrupt and inept) this might be the one:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem_(2006_film)
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 8 October 2023 08:38 (six months ago) link
Not sure why that link doesn't work but a Google should bring it up
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 8 October 2023 08:40 (six months ago) link
It's amazing in general that both The Exorcist and Taxi Driver have dodged the movement of history and continue to be shown on TV.
Wait, you think the movement of history has gone in the direction of LESS tolerance towards profanity on TV??
I saw Scorsese speak last weekend and he chuckled about how the first TV edits of Taxi Driver in the 70's were like 40 minutes long.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 9 October 2023 09:43 (six months ago) link
The idea of children being involved. Those films could not be made by a major studio now.
― clemenza, Monday, 9 October 2023 14:04 (six months ago) link
I would say that classic movies can get ushered into the present with plenty of "you could never get away with that today" allowances but, as Left's posts consistently remind, that moment may also be passing. (Caught a Letterboxd review of Sunrise that more or less burned it to the ground at the very idea that Janet Gaynor went back to George O'Brien.)
― insert nothing here (Eric H.), Monday, 9 October 2023 14:08 (six months ago) link
and Margo marries Bill and foregoes her stardom.
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 October 2023 14:11 (six months ago) link
Well if there was any testimony from either of the actresses in those two films that they felt uncomfortable I'd understand that they could become out of vogue but as things stand I think you're imagining more pearl clutching in the world than there actually is.
Likewise while it's by no means an uncommon ocurrence for younger movie fans to come across the gender politics of old timey classics and be horrified (and tbh there's lots to be horrified by!), thd vast majority of reviews of Sunrise on LB, regardless of age group, are still five star raves.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 9 October 2023 14:22 (six months ago) link
I do prefer my college days in the late '90s, where we all agreed that Singin' in the Rain's Don and Cosmo were definitely sharing a bed on the regular
― insert nothing here (Eric H.), Monday, 9 October 2023 14:38 (six months ago) link
Isn't there a new Exorcist spinoff either coming out or released already that features two adolescent girls?
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 9 October 2023 19:36 (six months ago) link
yes and it sucks apparently
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Monday, 9 October 2023 19:49 (six months ago) link
Poltergeist was way more terrifying to me as a child than the Exorcist or the Shining, because it was set in a house exactly like mine
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Monday, 9 October 2023 21:04 (six months ago) link
also at age ten I'd read a ton of Daniel Cohen books about the supernatural and knew next to nothing about Christianity, let alone Catholicism
I love in Poltergeist how they're watching a football game that is moving at what appears to be 0.05 speed
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Monday, 9 October 2023 21:08 (six months ago) link
that cuz they’re stoned all the time, remember coach rolling that j
― brimstead, Monday, 9 October 2023 21:51 (six months ago) link
Just rewatched Poltergeist and, yes, the scene of Steven and Diane rolling joints in bed and doing Donald Duck voices as foreplay is a small miracle of a scene
― Dwigt Rortugal (Eric H.), Thursday, 26 October 2023 12:32 (six months ago) link