The Old Gay Gristle Fest
@rmrenner
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To be clear- I did not get off twitter because of finding out about twinks.
This was an homage to Carrie Fisher.
In my head I hear her saying this with the contextless, perfectly neutral intonation of a speaking dictionary
Bonus 1: J'Accuse (1938). A wrenching bit of wish fulfillment in which a traumatized WWI vet calls up the spirits of the Great War dead to put a preemptive halt to WWII.
8. The Black Cat (1934). A strange collage of science fictional and gothic elements. Boris Karloff lives in an Art Deco mansion in Hungary built on the site of a WWI massacre and the movie treats the mansion as the 20th century's equivalent of a gothic manor. But the conversion from 19th to 20th century is incomplete so you have servants in peasant blouses wandering around in rooms with floor-to-ceiling windows and bakelite alarm clocks
7. Coraline (2009). This was a pretty astounding feat of stop-motion animation. Given the year it was produced, I was genuinely unsure whether it was fully computer-generated or not until I looked at the wiki page. It's such a flex that in some of the later sections of the movie, they drop the frame rate of certain elements to something characteristic of older stop-motion works to produce an uncanny effect.
Also I immediately clocked the Other Dad's song as a TMBG thing
6. Split (2016). I skipped this when it came out because it looked terrible and I was right. I watched it anyway today because it is THE most popular horror movie of 2016 on letterboxd and I hadn't seen it yet.
5. Pearl (2022). This was fun but I would've liked it even more if it had leaned into horror comedy and period-accurate detail. The opening scene leading up to the title was great but it was more appropriate to a midcentury melodrama. I think you could easily adapt it and her fantasy sequences to 1910s genres like "Little Tramp"-type silent comedy antics or pompous DW Griffith historical epics
4. Dead Ringers (1988). This caught me a little flat-footed because I was expecting something more fantastical. It's daffy but the elements of horror in this are definitely unmagical.
3. Let the Right One In (2008). For like 70% of the movie I wasn't sure if this was set in the 70s or if Sweden was just Like That
(or really, if it was doing the art-horror thing where you can maybe see a computer or cellphone in the background but everyone dresses vaguely late 20th c and coincidentally listens to music released between 1965-1985 on vinyl)
