@AmadeusAlmighty I mean, you can also tell me your favorite Korean horror movie as well? 😉
@Apocryphiliac Train to Busan, hands down
@AmadeusAlmighty It's a great one, for sure! Did you see the sequel, Peninsula? If so, what did you think of it?
@Apocryphiliac Pretty fond of the original Ring Super creepy 🙂 There's another that involves children in a cabin being raised by an evil, possibly not human, witch/spirit that I can't remember the name of.
@Embers Oh, what could that film be… hmmm… Are the children adopted/taken to a home to be “civilized?”
@Apocryphiliac House (1977) is just so damn strange and fun. It's like a pop record that's so far outside of what you normally listen to that you can't really explain why you enjoy it so much.
I'm just now realizing though that I actually haven't seen that much Japanese horror. I've seen a ton of Korean, Hong Kong, and Indonesian horror but for some reason I've seen way more straight drama from Japan. Gonna have to work on that.
I so want to see this! Just curious is it fun and not too disturbing for a tween or preteen?
@TheAbbotTrithemius @Apocryphiliac that's a tough call for me to make. I was listening to Gwar at 10 so my gauge is a little off. I think it would be fine. There is very brief nudity but I don't think anything is particularly sexualized. The gore is extremely stylized and it's often very surreal overall. Maybe check Common Sense Media or the IMDB Parent Guide to be sure if you don't want to pre-screen. It can't screw a kid up worse than Grave of the Fireflies imho.
Thanks for that. I saw Gwar a long time ago with Meat Beat Manifesto and Front Line Assembly.
it was utterly preposterous (the were wearing gigantic T-Rex costumes and utterly awesome.
Not Butthole Surfers level preposterous awesomeness, but it was up there.. :)
This awesome in your bio:
*Quixotically attempting to make art while the earth dies screaming.*
@TheAbbotTrithemius I don't think it's very disturbing. It's weird as fuck, and yeah there is a little bit of nudity, but it's not sexualized, imo. More like incidental. Would probably be fine for a teenager. By the way, we watched it on my Discord server some months ago. :) @deadweirdo
Thanks for that! And gotta get to one of your movies night soon on Discord, for sure!
@TheAbbotTrithemius Hausu was a pretty big hit. Nobody ever watches that movie for the first time and isn't surprised by it. Yet it has more going for it than sheer weirdness and absurdity. It's definitely got a distinctive pop-art/fairytale sensibility that was extremely influential in Japan. @deadweirdo
@deadweirdo My avatar is from an alternate poster for Hausu. It's one of my favorites!
@Apocryphiliac does it have to be Japanese specifically? Because I've got a Korean nomination...