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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)

I saw this in the theater in 2023, and I've already typed a LOT of... sigh... stuff about it. I waited to buy the DVD until it was less expensive, and I got it today, along with The Kentucky Fried Movie. This is a much better film and better use of my time.

Sting.

A girl living in an apartment house owned by her slumlord aunt makes a pet out of an alien spider that grows each time it eats... and to the detriment of every living thing in the building keeps growing...
Fun movie with a lot of scares guaranteed to make you jump. Kudos to the movie makers who chose to use a puppet for the monster spider rather than CGI!

Last night we watched:

Weresquito: Nazi Hunter [2016]
<=>"The Most Controversial Film EVER Made!"



Eleventh movie in the Mihmiverse.

EXCELLENT!\o/G O O D \o/F L I C K\o/
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From what I've read and seen I think it is fair to say that the Mihmverse films are parodies of 1950's Science Fiction movies but I don't believe you need to be too familiar with those films to enjoy the Mihmverse. If you have had some exposure to the 1950's Science Fiction films then the HUMOR in the Mihmverse will be what I think you will enjoy.

I enjoy 1950's Science Fiction movies; my bride can sometimes tolerate one or two of them but generally does not like them. But we are both very entertained by the Mihmverse films we've seen so far.

...and, we both enjoyed this film!

I thought this film was notable because, as are most Mihmverse films, it was in black and white...except the few spots of blood shown were always in bright red. A distinctve contrast and an entertaining technical touch.

'Come and See' (1985 Belarus)

The way I'd describe it - think of a Russian version of Deer Hunter, about the Eastern front rather than Vietnam, and demonstrate even more brutality toward civilians (like - old testament Numbers and Joshua stuff but with more modern implementation).

Great cinematography and construction, especially the psychology and styling of the montage toward the end.

Part of me would love to see a similar movie attempted about the Mongolian occupation of Russia but that would probably so graphic that it would be illegal to show almost anywhere. At the same time I don't think enough people know about it and IMHO it explains a lot about why Russia is the way it is.

The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)

Dr. Phibes Rises Again! (1972)

I watched The Abominable Dr. Phibes not long ago, I think on Svengoolie. At the time I wanted to buy it and its sequel on disc, but money was tight and I had to wait. It arrived in the mail today, along with a few other movies. I watched these two first.

Next I'll watch Theater of Blood (1973)
One of the discs I purchased.

All three star Vincent Price, a splendid actor with a sense of humor.
Original post from November found HERE.

Last night we watched:

The Good   The Bad   The Weird [2008]
<=>"One map. Three villains. Winner takes all."
We watched it in Korean, with English subtitles.
What we watched may also have had some Mandarin and Japanese, I'm not sure.



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I picked this film for viewing viewing because of its title.
It sort of fits a theme in some of my earlier posts.

I wrote/typed I was going to watch Theater of Blood. I intended to leave it at that. After watching, I had to say I really enjoyed the movie. I can see why it was one of Vincent Price's favorite films, and why Diana Rigg thought it was her best performance.

In The Penal Colony.

Recent short film adaption of Franz Kafka's story of the same name. While not a one hundred percent adaption, it keeps pretty close to the original story, in which a foreign traveler is given a demonstration of an execution device in a penal colony in which the condemned prisoner's sentence is carved on his back when he is put to death.
The story was better than the film.

Eyes Without a Face (1960)
streamed on Max

A French film, about a father who is in an automobile accident with his daughter. As a result, her face is severely scarred and damaged. The father, a surgeon, then goes through great lengths to graft a new face on his daughter. The down side is he robs several young women of their face, and they end up dead. The grafts are failures.

This is a film I've been aware of this film since the early 1970s when there was a single picture from the film in Denis Gifford's book, A Pictorial History of Horror Movies. I've seen more pictures since. The problem with pictures is it gives no idea how good the story, acting, and especially the cinematography are. Gorgeous black and white film images. I enjoyed the music too.

Note, the trailer says very little about the film.

The Commandant's Shadow (2024)
streamed this documentary on Max

A good documentary.

It featured a Jewish mother and her daughter, who discuss what it was like living in Auschwitz. The mother was a celloist, and was spared the gas shower because they needed a celloist for the camp's orchestra. They discuss their relationship, how the daughter's mother was not really there for her (this is way after the war ended).

It also feature a man who is the son of Rudolf Höss, the commandant of the camp, and his son. They also talk about what it was like for the son of Rudolf Höss to live adjacent to the death camp, what he knew and didn't know, what his believes his mother did not know, and how this man that hated by society was a good father. They talk about the guilt.

In the end, the two families meet. It is awkward. The daughter met them first, visiting Auschwitz together. That was less awkward. The mother, though she has tried to move on with her life, understandably still holds some anger (she never yells or anything like that, but she wanted to hear the son and grandson of Rudolf express that Rudolf was an evil man.

It is impossible for me to summarize the depth of what everyone said.

Sleepers (1996).

It is a rough movie however and I would not suggest it to anyone who is triggered by abuse.

I watched A Real Pain with Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin. It's sort of about a pair of Jewish guys visiting a concentration camp in Poland and visiting their grandmother's old house. But it's more about their relationship and their personality differences.

I thought it was excellent.

Freaks (1932)
watched from DVD, Tod Browning's Sideshow Shockers from the Criterion Collection



I posted this as a spoil because the creator say it contains spoilers.

The Mystic (1925)
watched from DVD, Tod Browning's Sideshow Shockers from the Criterion Collection

I enjoyed this film. Tod Browning made this film for MGM, and I wondered why it did not feature Lon Chaney, because they paired well together. I found the answer. Lon Chaney was making Tower of Lies, a lost film directed by Swedish director Victor Sjöström.

A group of gypsies con audiences with the Mystic, played by Aileen Pringle, performing mysterious, mystical, spiritual performances. An American con man teams up with them to move their act from a side show to teh big time, preying on the wealthy, with spiritual apparitions. Aileen Pringle was quite good as Zara, the Mystic.

The Unknown (1927)
watched from DVD, Tod Browning's Sideshow Shockers from the Criterion Collection

The last of the films on the disc set.

I think I've written about this film before.

One thing about The Mystic, synchronized sound was added to the film, doors slamming, people screaming, crowds, etc. It was done very well. I don't know if MGM did this, possibly for re-release during the sound era, or if Criterion did it. I imagine it was MGM.

There was an extra called Sideshow Tod: An Interview with Megan Abbott. I wish I could post it, but surprisingly, no one has pirated it to YouTube yet. She eloquently discusses Tod Browning and all three films.

Last night we watched:

A Bucket of Blood [1959]
<=>"Will YOU join his human museum?"



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