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Pretty sure most of the folks dragging this are so tapped into meme culture that they made up their minds about it before walking into the theater. And/or they're in the last stages of superhero fatigue, which is fair. I've only seen, like, three Marvel-related movies in the last five years, but this is one of the breezier ones. The script's a mess if you want the endless exposition usually found in these types of films, but I don't watch them for coherence. This one's silly, it's fun, and it climaxes in a fireworks factory!

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This is my second try at this one. I couldn't finish the first episode last time. I got through episodes one and two this time.

Wikipedia helped me to understand that the first three episodes are chapter 1/this movie. Episodes four and five are chapter 2/the sequel movie, Legend of the Demon Womb. And all of that is what's included in the laserdisc box set that I found at the flea market. So I got through both sides of disc one. And I think I'm good.

The entire thing is a masculine nightmare induced over insecurity about penis size. (No, seriously, there are multiple times already where a dude's dick gets mocked as being small.) Then there are frequent rape fantasies. So much rape. Real edgelord shit.

And the rest is some plot so dull that I found it incomprehensible. There is some creativity in the design and animation, but I also just couldn't tell much of it apart. I was actually convinced my laserdisc player hadn't flipped sides, and that I was watching side one again, but, oh, no, the title confirms that this is the next episode. I would have had no way of telling otherwise.

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The visuals to "Falling" are entirely close-ups of merchandise in a Twin Peaks gift shop. It's one of the great instances of fan culture self-reflexivity, and it's the perfect capper to this unique, outsider's view of American culture.

Watch it right here.

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Antifa cat removes his sunglasses and we see the world from his perspective, in which humans move in the style of modern dance, and they're colored in a way that reveals their true nature. The first sequence like this goes on for about 6 minutes! Yeah, this one DOES NOT disappoint!

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These are some films that didn't quite make it onto my final Hooptober list, but which I would really like to watch this Halloween season. I definitely won't get through them all, but here's to crossing a few off the list in the next month or so. Still all from physical media.

1. Sleepwalker
2. The Dead Hate the Living!
3. A Woman's Torment
4. Scary Tales
5. Malatesta’s Carnival of Blood
6. Habit
7. Haunted Castle
8. Phantom of the Paradise
9. Kill Katie Malone
10. Psycho II

...plus 19 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I've added a few additional requirements for my list:

-All films viewed from physical media
-At least 4 different physical media formats (I've got 5: DVD, blu-ray, VHS, super 8, 16mm)
-At least 1 movie borrowed from a public library (Horror of Dracula)
-At least 1 movie purchased or rented from a local, independent store (The Guard from the Underground, Demonoid, and Vampire Lovers all purchased from Eide's Entertainment)
-At least 1 locally-made movie (Andreadeus of the Night)

And here are @cinemonster's prescribed "rules" for this year:

-6 countries (Can I go over? I've got 11: I've got Japan, Italy, USA, Britain, , Mexico, Russia, , Finland, Sweden, South Korea)
-8 decades (11 decades: 1910s through 2010s)
-2 folk horror (The Wind, Hour of the Wolf, Vampyr, The White Reindeer, Incubus, Hannah and the Dog Ghost)
-4 films from 1981 (Demonoid, Wolfen, Graduation Day, The Beyond)
-2 films from your birth year (Child's Play and The Brain)
-2 haunted house films (The Phantom of the Opera, The Dead of Night, Symptoms, 13 Ghosts)
The worst Part 2 that you haven't seen and can access (The Hills Have Eyes 2 remake. Who knows, could be good!)
-1 film set in the woods (The White Reindeer)
-1 Kaiju or Kong film (OG King Kong)
-2 Hammer films (Horror of Dracula and The Vampire Lovers)
-3 films with a person of color as director or lead (Ganja and Hess, Hannah and the Dog Ghost, Andreadeus of the Night, Demonoid, Sugar Hill, J.D.'s Revenge)
-3 Asian horror films (Happiness of the Katakuris, Tale of Two Sisters, The Guard from the Underground)
-1 Tobe Hooper Films (Lifeforce)
-Extra Work (J.D.'s Revenge and The Scooby Doo Project)

List of supplemental Hooptober 8.0 movies

• The Guard from Underground
• Late Night Trains
• The Night of the Hunted
• Demonoid: Messenger of Death
• The Dying Swan
• Nosferatu
• Dead of Night
• The Phantom of the Opera
• Vampyr
• The White Reindeer

...plus 27 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.