Oh yeah. I often find old sci-fi effects charming; I *like* seeing the way some recognizable object was repurposed for prop or costuming work. Buuuuut I also still want to know that's what I'm getting into, not having it sprung on my by surprise.
Yeah, I'll pass on reading Story of O. I get that it IS a kink or desire for some people, but it is vastly NOT for me, and I want nothing to do with it.
I'm happy for people to *offer* for friends or loved ones to come participate in something spiritual for them. I'm often even happy to go to those sorts of events and such! At the very least I'd be willing to consider it. But that is rarely the tactic taken. (Or even if it is at the start, then the instant you agree, you're a captive audience and they turn up the pressure on you.) It sucks!
I need to watch The Midnight Club! I never got around to seeing it. (I wanted to, then found out it was intended to be multiple seasons but was preemptively cancelled by Netflix, so I didn't watch it. Just like I stopped watching Archive 81 (not Mike Flanagan) for the same reason, even though I'd enjoyed the first few episodes. I should watch those shows anyway, but already knowing there won't be more despite the story being incomplete makes it hard for me to want to.) And oh yes, I can understand you not wanting to watch movies involving heights like that! Jump scares can *sometimes* be effective, but the amount that some horror relies on them? Ugh, yawn!
Bummer the channel was borked. Hopefully you can find an actual copy!
I've had it happen with quite a few movies... some are ones I'm pretty sure we rented back when we had a rental store near us when I was a student, and now a decade+ later we re-find them on streaming. There are some that I remember almost not at all, except for a particular scene or set, or one line of dialogue that I DO remember perfectly clearly. It's weird!
Yeah, the German case gets mentioned quite often in documentaries about exorcism and things, enough so that I recognize pictures of her when I see them used in something... but I feel like most of the things that talk about her have the same fairly basic telling of the story. It surprises me that there hasn't ever been a more comprehensive biography or anything written as far as I can tell, but I suppose it's not like her family would want to participate in something like that.
Yeah... I do see that there could be something like that, with the Sinister entity accessing the realm of the dead, or maybe something where the murdered families are in the Further... The supernatural elements in both series just have such very different vibes to me, it's hard for me to imagine crossing them over in a way that doesn't damage the feel of one or the other. Sinister feels, well, more sinister to me. Insidious is creepy and certainly still horror, but it doesn't have the same sense of DREAD that Sinister does, and I wouldn't want to feel like that was lost. But I'd still be interested in seeing it, if it happens!
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Yeah, I'll pass on reading Story of O. I get that it IS a kink or desire for some people, but it is vastly NOT for me, and I want nothing to do with it.
I'm happy for people to *offer* for friends or loved ones to come participate in something spiritual for them. I'm often even happy to go to those sorts of events and such! At the very least I'd be willing to consider it. But that is rarely the tactic taken. (Or even if it is at the start, then the instant you agree, you're a captive audience and they turn up the pressure on you.) It sucks!
I need to watch The Midnight Club! I never got around to seeing it. (I wanted to, then found out it was intended to be multiple seasons but was preemptively cancelled by Netflix, so I didn't watch it. Just like I stopped watching Archive 81 (not Mike Flanagan) for the same reason, even though I'd enjoyed the first few episodes. I should watch those shows anyway, but already knowing there won't be more despite the story being incomplete makes it hard for me to want to.)
And oh yes, I can understand you not wanting to watch movies involving heights like that!
Jump scares can *sometimes* be effective, but the amount that some horror relies on them? Ugh, yawn!
Bummer the channel was borked. Hopefully you can find an actual copy!
I've had it happen with quite a few movies... some are ones I'm pretty sure we rented back when we had a rental store near us when I was a student, and now a decade+ later we re-find them on streaming. There are some that I remember almost not at all, except for a particular scene or set, or one line of dialogue that I DO remember perfectly clearly. It's weird!
Yeah, the German case gets mentioned quite often in documentaries about exorcism and things, enough so that I recognize pictures of her when I see them used in something... but I feel like most of the things that talk about her have the same fairly basic telling of the story. It surprises me that there hasn't ever been a more comprehensive biography or anything written as far as I can tell, but I suppose it's not like her family would want to participate in something like that.
Yeah... I do see that there could be something like that, with the Sinister entity accessing the realm of the dead, or maybe something where the murdered families are in the Further... The supernatural elements in both series just have such very different vibes to me, it's hard for me to imagine crossing them over in a way that doesn't damage the feel of one or the other. Sinister feels, well, more sinister to me. Insidious is creepy and certainly still horror, but it doesn't have the same sense of DREAD that Sinister does, and I wouldn't want to feel like that was lost. But I'd still be interested in seeing it, if it happens!