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Post by Calidore on Oct 17, 2024 18:43:00 GMT -5
For my viewing last night I went with the 1962 Hammer Film Captain Clegg I've long heard about this one before but never before seen it until now having gotten a hold of the Hammer Horror vol.6 box set for a song at a used book store. To start with I ask you this, how could you say no to Peter Cushing as a pirate captain? Cushing doesn't disappoint as either pirate or parson in disguise and the effects work of the "Phantoms" is both visually stunning and yet simple enough that it's believable that a group of villagers could actually pull it off in order to scare away people from finding out their smuggling operation. So although it lacks a real supernatural threat it has an eerie mood to it and some great action making it well worth watching. I have never even heard of this movie, but it definitely sounds worth hunting down.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Oct 17, 2024 19:53:19 GMT -5
It popped up on the Tubi recommendations, so why not watch 1999's The Ninth Gate again? I love movies about how the devil tricks people, and in which he's not a supervillain who can be beaten using some magical spell or some otherworldly legal argument that binds him in a knot. I want the devil to be so far above the protagonists that nothing less than divine intervention can give him pause. I want them to be mere puppets in his game.
In this film, a certain old book is supposed to contain a recipe for summoning Old Nick. An unscrupulous book hunter is charged with ascertaining the authenticity of one copy, because two other copies (forgeries) are known to exist. Several people with clearly nefarious intentions are ready to commit murder to put their hands on those things, and mayhem ensues!
Plus the devil. Of course. I loved the film's "oooooooh, s#*t" moment.
Its tone reminded me of The Omen or Rosemary's Baby; the tension is not due to jump scares or graphic scenes, but to the infernal nature of an adversary who seems to pull all the strings.
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Post by berkley on Oct 17, 2024 22:23:24 GMT -5
It popped up on the Tubi recommendations, so why not watch 1999's The Ninth Gate again? I love movies about how the devil tricks people, and in which he's not a supervillain who can be beaten using some magical spell or some otherworldly legal argument that binds him in a knot. I want the devil to be so far above the protagonists that nothing less than divine intervention can give him pause. I want them to be mere puppets in his game. In this film, a certain old book is supposed to contain a recipe for summoning Old Nick. An unscrupulous book hunter is charged with ascertaining the authenticity of one copy, because two other copies (forgeries) are known to exist. Several people with clearly nefarious intentions are ready to commit murder to put their hands on those things, and mayhem ensues! Plus the devil. Of course. I loved the film's "oooooooh, s#*t" moment. Its tone reminded me of The Omen or Rosemary's Baby; the tension is not due to jump scares or graphic scenes, but to the infernal nature of an adversary who seems to pull all the strings.
I might try this one again sometime myself. I remember finding it "good but not great" at the time. It could be my expectations were unfairly high for a supernatural thriller from the director who made Rosemary's Baby.
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