What's the last movie you saw?

[Mjolnir]

Day 26 felt like a good day to visit Dario Argento, but just watching Suspiria again felt too easy, so I went ahead and checked out a later film of his, Tenebrae. I could talk about the plot and story being nonsense despite being framed as a serial killer narrative about a guy who kills based on a book called Tenebrae that involves its writer and how its apparent attempt to comment on violent media's perceived effects on people is shallow and throwaway, but who goes to Argento for substance? The man is all about style, but sadly, that's kind of lacking here. Not absent, mind you, for it's a well shot film with a great soundtrack and some nasty violence, but the presentation only pops when its ill-fitting, mostly in the wild misuse of the music, and overall just doesn't do anything that hasn't been done better elsewhere at that point, certainly not well enough to overcome how skin deep it all is. Maybe this wasn't the best place to go next, but if this is at all representative of his other work, I'm starting to see why you typically only hear about Suspiria.

[metalcrypt]

"Lucky," the one with Brea Grant (who is also the writer, and is a writer in the movie). Kind of a weird one where a man comes to their house every night to kill them. She kills him every time and he disappears and comes back the next day. Can't say much more without divulging the plot, if you can call it that, but what I took away from it was that it was a metaphor for violence against women. I've seen it described as a "reverse slasher."

I still got 3 or 4 days left on my Shudder subscription, so we'll see what else I have on my watch list.