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I enjoyed the film, though obviously it went a bit too far, especially with the last line. Luckily, if you told ChatGPT not to impregnate you with a demon seed it would immediately say "You're absolutely right" or something obsequious like that, and then gas you up with some bullshit.

I think Arthur C. Clarke said that "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from SciFi hooey".

The poster for the movie. A woman's head is shown lying down from behind, with her hair splayed out. The tagline reads "Julie Christie carried the demon seed. Fear for her."

#nowwatching Demon Seed (1977). A film about the dangers of creating a sentient AI. Feels like a film ahead of its time... #horrorsky

the poster for the film, showing the cracked bust of a woman's head and hand lying on the floor. The text reads "something strange is happening in the town of stepford. Where the men spend their nights doing something secret. And every woman acts like every man's dream of the "perfect wife. Where a young woman watched the dream become a nightmare. And sees the nightmare engulf her best friend. And realises that any moment, any second - her turn is coming.

#nowwatching The Stepford Wives (1975). I was under the impression I'd seen this film, but on watching it I definitely haven't. How is that possible? #horrorsky

The poster for malevolence 2. Alexandra daddario is hiding with her back to the wall while a shadowy figure walks down the corridor behind her.

#nowwatching Malevolence 2: Bereavement (2010). I didn't like the first one at all, so naturally I'm moving straight on to the second. This is a prequel to the first one, and if nothing else it looks a lot nicer. #horrirsjy

The poster for malevolence. A Knife wielding, figure with a bag over his face looms over a rural farmhouse

#nowwatching Malevolence (2004). An old independent slasher that was served up to me by Tubi. A bunch of bank robbers take refuge in a house occupied by a...malevolent force. #horrorsky

Still, I got 85. And if you round it up, that's basically 90.

I just failed to bench 90kg in the gym, which wouldn't be so bad, except all the larger boys laughed at me and kicked sand in my face, right in front of my best girl. Humiliating.

Beautifully filmed too. I was very excited about the locations, as it's a part of the country I've spent quite a lot of time in and have some fond memories of. I would recommend the Katsuura Marine Tower to tourists - like an aquarium, except all the fish are free in their natural habitat.

This was excellent - a very intense revenge thriller that starts fairly slowly, and gradually ramps up until it hits a frenzy. It's a story of human revenge, but also the revenge of nature and small communities against exploitation and despoilment.

The climax is set there too! One of my favourite parts of the country.

I'm pretty sure one of the early scenes was filmed at the Katsuura Marine Park in Chiba. I've been there a couple of times - nice to see it randomly in a film!

The blu ray for mermaid legend. A woman is staring angrily forward. Below here is an image of a naked woman apparently dismembering the bodies of two men.

#nowwatching Mermaid Legend (1984). I saw a few people recommending this recently and it sounded amazing, so I splashed out on a fancy boutique Blu-ray. Really excited to watch this! #horrorsky

Great poster though, you've got to admit.

The poster for the undead. A skeleton wearing a cloak loons over a coffin. In the coffin a woman in a nightdress is kneeling. The tagline reads "terror...that screams from the grave!"

#justwatched The Undead (1957), a psychological experiment leads a woman to become entangled in a past life. A bit of low-budget fun from Roger Corman, with an imaginative, if rather silly, story. #horrorsky

This was fun. Started off slow, but built to a pretty good final act with some cool practical effects. I wish there were more cryptid found footage films set outside North America. Africa, Asia, The Middle East - lots of creepy cryptids to investigate!

The 90s Gamera films are some of the best the genre has to offer. He deserves a new 'Minus One' quality film.

Mine's been delayed 😭

The poster for Frogman. A Frogman is walking through a swamp surrounded by trees. Which seems to be forming a frog face

#nowwatching Frogman (2023). It doesn't have a great letterboxed rating, but I'm sure it'll be toadally awesome. Hopfully none of the nice characters croak. It's found footage, so I think we'll see everything, warts and all. So far, I'm ribbeted. #horrorsky

I posted my thoughts in the quote tweet. Not bad, but not essential.

This one stood out as especially misogynistic, even compared to the standards of the genre.

And, it must be said, a main character who absolutely deserved to be killed. Horrible ending too. Just overall a deeply misogynistic film.

Bianchi displays flashes of style, but aside from Edwige Fenech there's barely a single likeable character in this. As the film plods along it starts to feel like a succession of nude/sex scenes half-heartedly interspersed with plot. A B- giallo, but a masterpiece compared to Burial Ground.

Interestingly, the phrase 'incestual necrophilic cannibalism', follows the rule of adjective ordering in noun phrases. Typically, the nature of the noun precedes the specific type. So here, the type of cannibalism is 'necrophilic', while 'incestual' denotes a more general description of it's nature.

Directed by Andrea Bianchi, better known for his Etruscan zombie flick Burial Ground, in which a creepy child (played by a creepy jockey) becomes a zombie and engages in incestual necrophilic cannibalism with his mother. A true artist.

The movie poster, showing a figure in black raising a knife above a naked, screaming woman.

Ok, another Giallo. #nowwatching Strip Nude for Your Killer (1975). Goodness, what a salacious title! I do hope the name wasn't chose as a way to draw in an audience for a film that couldn't stand on its own merits. #horrorsky

Maybe I'm stupid, but I don't think this made sense? It felt like they had two different ideas for how they wanted the film to end, and then just did both of them.

Torso is great! I'm enjoying this one (planning to finish it this evening), but the print on Tubi is a bit rough and bleary. Makes it difficult to get into.

The poster. A couple are shown in a forest through black and white night vision.

#nowwatching #missingcouple (2024). A bit of undemanding found footage for the evening... #horroraky

Unfortunately, the whole album is like 4 minutes long so now I need to find something else to listen to.