"The moon is beautiful tonight."
I need to impulse-watch things more often. Look at the poster, see it's available, click play. That's what happened with Moonlit Winter, and it turned out to be exactly what I wanted and needed at the time, without knowing what to expect from it. It's hard to describe what watching the film is even like, just that it's so many feelings, so much unexpectedly beautiful emotion and lightness.
Understated and quiet, the film is shotβ¦
"Swamp makes a body see whatever they wants to see."
If Shy People consisted only of the incredible environmental cinematography and the score, with a few moments of non-verbal human interaction, it would be an immaculate short film. Shots of dark water riddled with grasping cypress corpses, blanketed with heavy fog, atmosphere thick with dread. Spanish moss hanging from bare branches like whispering dreamcatchers, swaying in the faint wind seeking out things hidden. Entering the bayou feels like stepping intoβ¦
Watched as a mini collab with the lovely and equally rascally Ethan! Be sure to check out his review here. c:
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"Priestess of a religion full of strange rites, Genuine had, at first, a horror of cruelty..."
Fern Andra embodies the character of Genuine exquisitely. At turns ethereal, statuesque, feral, seductive, and unhinged, sometimes flitting rapidly between, she always displays an ominous undercurrent as well - perhaps because she is so otherworldly, and perhaps because as the story movesβ¦
The alien deserved better, and when he/they realizes that and goes on a rampage and wipes out humanity, I'll be here for it.
β· 1980s Fantasy
β· Around the World: Spain
β· Extraterrestrial
β· Practical Effects
β· Spellbound and Starry-Eyed
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hungry. thirsty. sweating. thieving. destroying.
burning.
lick of flame carries whispered screams
on behalf of the dead, the gods grant a wish
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a black cat
a black gate
a white ghost, gliding silently through the sky, standing silently before
a trap laid with honey, spider to noxious fly
a cat's cry in the bamboo grove
wind rustling through guardian leaves, a splendid residence stands sentinel
a slight chill,β¦
"Let's just take all this crap down, it looks like a crime scene."
Wow if ever there was someone who needed to be murdered by an evil burlap sack child on Halloween night. Who takes their decorations down on HALLOWEEN NIGHT?! Take your spiritless self inside and sit down ffs. I miss when entire neighborhoods used to decorate houses for trick-or-treaters or just to be fun on a holiday and this girl is over here like "UGH I HATE HALLOWEEN."β¦
