I spent the other night making a list of movies for my boss. “Mindfuck” probably isn’t the right category, but I dunno. It’s pretty close for most of them. The last three movies are a bit divergent, but they flow nicely as a list.

1. 

   Triangle

   A good round-a-bout entry to start this list. Group of friends stranded in the ocean board a mysterious ship where they soon encounter copies of themselves. Some of them try to protect each other, some try to kill each other. Everyone just wants off the boat.

2. 

   Coherence

   Triangle, but with much less bloodshed. A group of friends have a dinner party while a comet passes overhead. The power goes off in the neighborhood, but they can see a light on in the house down the street, which looks “strangely” like their own.

3. 

   The Congress

   Continuing with the stoic, somber tone: a famous actress signs an eternal contract. It’s actually less fantastical than it sounds. She’s scientificly immortalized, but what happens when the mass public inevitabley looses interest?

4. 

   Under the Silver Lake

   I wasn’t fond of this movie, but it I think it fits this list really well. Hollywood is fake! But this movie gets really weird about it. There’s a lot of uncomfortable woman objectification in this one, but that’s supposed to be part of the theme… unfortunately I don’t quite get it, but it’s still interesting with a bunch of memorable scenes.

5. 

   Naked Lunch

   I love it when Cronenberg is given an actual proper narrative. An exterminator gets addicted to consuming his pesticide, then goes into hiding after killing his wife. Enjoy the disgusting insect puppetry while trying to decipher how blurred the line is between reality and hallucination.

6. 

   John Capenter’s The Thing

   Finally a break from questioning reality, but we’re taking the body horror up to 11. A “thing” is loose on an artic base. It absorbs life, then replaces its victims. The dog dies.

7. 

   Pontypool

   Speaking of contagions, what if speaking was the contagion? A radio host has a run in with violent, inchoherent zombies, and attempts to talk his way out of it.

8. 

   Beartrap

   An indie film shot in Edmonton. Exactly how sick and twisted is the new room mate? It has a slow start, and isn’t nearly as heavy as anything else on this list, but it’s well worth watching, especially because it’s literally impossible to find unless you know someone who bought it 10 years ago.

I’m sick of always mispelling “loses”. Lose should be spelt loos. It’s not pronounced “L-oh-s”. Loose can stay loose, but when somebody “loses” something, they should “looses” it. I don’t think “looses” is even currently taken by a definition. You can loosen something, or have it loosed, but not looses. So let me spell it the way I hear it. Christ.

October’s got me in the mood for feature lengths. Fistfuls of feature lengths. I had watched Scaredy Cats summary of the new Fear Street trilogy a month ago, and apparently I had already forgotten it, because upon re-watching I see that they had completly spoiled Fear Street 1666. Maybe that’s why spoilers don’t affect me, I never pay enough attention for it to matter. More than that, I thought Scaredy Cats had a more negative opinion of the movies, maybe it was subliminal from the critical tone. I knew it was still a recommendation, but I thought they had given some more conflicting opinions, and I was going to give my take here. Upon rewatching to actually identify these conflicts, I found myself in staunch aggreement for nearly every point.

So quit wasting time reading my words. Watch both trilogies.

I thoroughly enjoyed Fear Street. I loved that the plot misdirection actually worked for me. It’s very fun, if nothing else. I didn’t find the start of the first movie to be off putting, abeit the fact that I do hate asshole characters, but I actually think that I preferred it to the second half when the plot set in hard and everybody just straight played their roles. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that I put the show on while doing the dishes. Chores might be the secret ingredient to being a modern film lover. The relationship of the main couple struck me as a bit toxic in the first movie, but yah, the multi-generational love story won me over that. It didn’t however win me over the use of Calibri and comments about SSDs. Were those bait? lol.

SHARE Society currently uses some really generic clip art as its logo. Here’s my redesign for some shirts they wanted to get printed up. It was rejected, but I’m still happy with it.

This is the most important video I’ve seen all week. Right up there with I Did A Thing.