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10/15/10, 07:40
Ah, the liquid/solid saga. That was some hilarious shit. |  | Chris-chan's super mode.
10/11/10, 10:14
Did... did he actually coat his torso in blue makeup? | | Da Booty Hitta
10/07/10, 15:21
"Life Choices" tag. | | Rachel Maddow explores the escalation of drone attacks in Pakistan.
10/07/10, 07:14
http://www.slate.com/id/2265655/pagenum/all | | Hannah's Field - Puff Puff Give
10/06/10, 17:13
So, assuming these people are also in the "legalize it" boat, if they're that hateful toward corporations, do they realize that, when it's legalized, corporations will be all OVER that mofo? | | NOS backfire
10/06/10, 17:11
Some banjo on the soundtrack would help, though. | | Hannah's Field - Puff Puff Give
10/06/10, 14:47
What is with this peculiar belief that anything that grows from the ground is "natural" and "good for you" and such? Haven't they noticed that whole thing with tobacco causing various cancers and diseases? | | Man on Lark misses the elevator.
10/06/10, 11:46
From the comments...
"Did he dead?" | | Tim and Eric For Everyone!
10/06/10, 11:23
I don't give a crap about the "Tim and Eric are bad/good/bad/good/BAD!/GOOD!" debate, that SNL intro has always been lame and it's nice to see it get made fun of. | | msyugioh123's thrilling rendition of Van Halen's 'Jump.'
10/06/10, 07:13
The howl is why I submitted it. | | Christine O'Donnell is not a witch
10/05/10, 20:33
"John Holmes Fucker" would be best. | | Evil Dead 2 - Ash says 'Groovy!'
10/05/10, 17:57
Five forever and ever. | | Christine O'Donnell is not a witch
10/05/10, 17:07
YOU win, good sir. | | Chris-chan proudly announces his employment at a local Walmart -- is getting off social security
10/04/10, 16:48
Well yeah, you have to give it five stars, it's becoming a black hole of internet evil. | | Chris-chan proudly announces his employment at a local Walmart -- is getting off social security
10/04/10, 13:42
With this doof back to his old idiotic ways, I actually visited the Cwcki site late last week to see why the sudden return. I stumbled across a page full of prank calls, most of which are someone with a soundboard of Chris's dad or Chris fucking with people at Golden Corral or Blockbuster video. Those weren't bad.
On the bottom of the page was a prank call that was NOT someone with soundboards of these idiots, but trolls calling Chris's dad to essentially harass him. What starts out as "Have you ever heard of Bangbus dot com?" quickly devolves to Chris's dad objecting to the continual harassment while these idiots simply yell over him shit like, "YOUR SON DRINKS HIS OWN SEMEN!" and "YOUR SON IS LAZY AND DOES NOTHING WITH HIS COLLEGE DEGREE!"
That's what it's come to - calling a pathetic elderly racist and yelling porn site urls and insults about his son's... dietary oddities.
This has gone beyond "Chris-Chan is a fuckup," into everyone being involved being a fuckup. A perfect storm of Internet retardation one-up-manship. | | The Beyond - ending
10/02/10, 14:33
The kid in House by the Cemetery was worse.
And that voice acting on the dub... shudder. | | The Beyond - ending
10/01/10, 23:58
In Jay Slater's book on the Zombie and Cannibal exploitation period in Italian Cinema "Eaten Alive," he shows that there are multiple conflicting stories as to why the ending was set up the way it was... and at least two of the conflicting stories are from Fulci himself!
And I agree, City has some really fantastic ideas and moments (the gut puking is ETERNAL), but The Beyond is a better-crafted film I think. | | The Beyond - ending
10/01/10, 23:55
CharlesSmith, Take The Beyond and watch it back to back with Joe D'Amato's Anthropophagus. That would probably give you a clearer indication of what revdrew's meaning by "hit and miss" in terms of Italian horror. It's more a pure entertainment aspect of the film... we KNOW it's ludicrous, but is it ENTERTAINING? Can it overcome its limitations budgetarily, or in a storytelling sense, or in some way?
The Beyond is plenty ludicrous in many ways - and some very unintentional ways (a sign above a door in a hospital reading, "Do Not Entry" is a good starting point for these), but it is able to rise above it's quickie exploitation liklihood through its energy, visual creativity, and atmosphere thick enough to cut with a knife. Anthopophagus, on the other hand, is about the most fucking boring thing to be called an Italian horror film. Five good minutes at the beginning and maybe fifteen at the end. The rest of it is dipshits roaming around a seemingly abandoned town. | | The Beyond - ending
10/01/10, 21:27
The film has a major theme involving the eyes of victims - they're constantly destroyed, be it by being eaten by spiders, avulsced by spider attacks, or whatever else. A girl who tries to warn our heroes to get out of the hotel is blind, her eyes looking as these two look at the end of the film.
The concept is one of hopelessness. There's nothing to see - an endless "sea" of darkness. If you wanna get all clever, there's nothing to "look forward to."
Hardee har har. | | The Beyond - ending
10/01/10, 21:24
After Lucio Fulci scored with the zombie exploitation flick Zombi2/Zombie/Zombie Flesh Eaters, he did a number of horror films that were more into suggestion and concept than linear plotting, these three being City of the Living Dead (Gates of Hell), The Beyond, and House By The Cemetery (House by the Cemetery being the most plotted and structured of the three). City of the living dead, to all intents and purposes, is sort of a conceptual "pilot" for The Beyond. It's important to note when watching one of these films that they are not meant to be taken in as a "story," but as a series of hirrific setpieces and images. In terms of disturbing imagery, I personally find The Beyond more effective.
In City of the Living Dead and The Beyond the supernatural evil is never really revealed as a character - it's a sort of spiritual cancer or corruption most often represented as biological corruption - death, rot, maggots, zombies, putrescence.
Another thing that throws viewers who don't know what they're getting into upon first viewing is the fact that these films have stuff that seems to randomly break the laws of physics or any sense of logic - zombies will teleport from one location to another, or someone entering one location may suddenly find themselves in a completely different, unconnected location upon walking through a doorway. This is intentional as the concept was that the "evil" is capable of corrupting and warping reality itself.
I once read that, as an athiest, Fulci was using The Beyond as a sort of exploration of a concept of there being a such thing as a supernatural "Hell" without there being a God. | |
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