#981

Not seen Videomannen, but watched Beyond The Gates not too long ago and really enjoyed that! :slight_smile:

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#982

So cool - there’s several there that I recognize from my dearly departed VHS collection. I love that Omen II is in the Family section. That Fulci Aenigma is giving me goosepimples. Pretty sure that’s the edition of Salem’s Lot I used to have. So many great movies there…

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#983

It gave me strong strong deja vu of working my way methodically through the horror section of my local videostore during my teenage years. God bless that place and its lax attitude towards renting 18 rated films to clearly underage kids :+1:

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#984

Yes! Always such a sense of triumph when you managed to sweet talk the owner into renting something you had no earthly right to be watching.

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#985

Fear Street: 1978 is a lot of fun.

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#986

Watching it now, enjoying how Max from Stranger Things is playing… Max from Stranger Things.

#987

Wanted to watch this tonight but back a little later than planned from the pub. Tomorrow!

#988

Dug out my old DVD of Psycho (1960), about 10 minutes in. Not seen it for over a decade.

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#989

Nice!! What a classic. Enjoy!

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#990

Marion Crane has just arrived at Bates Motel, the first 27 minutes sets that up so well. For a film to look that minimal even in a city struck me now.

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#991

It’s such a visually striking film. Arguably perfection.

All the chat on this thread has got me really feeling a rewatch soon.

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#992

All those shots with the camera just trained on her face. There’s one bit where she’s smiling and looks just like Norman. Creepy.

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#993

Shower scene is live, the chat between them before is just utterly fantastic.

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#994

Loving the live-blogging. :grinning: Has anyone seen the ‘uncut’ version that came out last year? Think it maybe added in some footage that’s probably not vital, but I’d still like to see it.

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#995

Objectively, the way the shower scene is shot, is just perfect. The fact it doesn’t have explicit nudity (I know Hitchcock is no saint). The sounds of the knife. The whole way it is orchestrated. Thinking what she is seeing and maybe realising compared to what the viewer is alluded to see. That shadow still gave me goosebumps. This is the first Slasher film right?

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#996

All true. When I watched it with my son earlier this week, I had to resist the temptation to pause it every now and then and draw his attention to quite what a genius Hitchcock was being in any given scene.

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#997

I’ve already paused and flicked back 30 seconds twice. The cop bit on the Highway, when he’s behind her and she’s hiding the envelope, that is so powerfully shot. Authority and power being oblivious to what is actually happening. You could draw metaphors all day long from this film.

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#998

I took a course on American film in university and this was one of the films we studied. The teacher was so enthusiastic about it, made think about certain shots and themes in ways that I doubt I’d ever have got to on my own.

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#999

Not seen the uncut version, no, really would like to though.

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#1000

Arbogast in is the house, well, not in the house… yet. The Arbogast Killing would be a great name for a band or album.

Perkins is freakin’ fantastic in this film, the way he switches from nervous to calm, the direction when he’s chewing gum being cross examined putting his head down to Arbogast’s photo.

“The n n n n n n next morning”

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