#slit movie

[that-taters-my-tots]

So, I watched White Chicks (2004) for the first time and I am just STRUCK how much it took from Some Like it Hot (1959)! I'm not saying this in a bad way, I was very amused to see things from one of my favourite movies used in this one.

Quite a few scenes from SLIH were literally copy-pasted into WC and it's just hilarious. The biggest one of them being the dates Kevin and Marcus have with Denise and Latrell respectively. I will say that WC does lack the queer tones that SLIH does. But, just like in SLIH, Kevin uses the fact that Marcus has a date with Latrell to his advantage. He steals Latrells car and even breaks into his house so he can take Denise on a date (under the guise of being the real Latrell). Meanwhile, Marcus has to go on a date with the real Latrell and suffer his advances.

This is near exact what happened in SLIH! Daphne has to go on a date with Osgood and and Joe uses it to his advantage to use his small boat and then to wine and dine Sugar Kane in his yacht!

Again, I'm not displeased with WC borrowing from SLIT. I was laughing the entire time. The date scene isn't the only scene WC took inspiration from, either. If you've seen both films, you'll surely know the other references and what scenes were modeled from the ones from SLIT!

[theoldkyokodied]

posting this one seperatly bc of the subject matter uhm. anyway

[pixlatedvampire]

I havent finished anything in a bit so please enjoy my favorite Grima doodles lmao 💗🥰

[lemonisntreal]

Warmup sketch I did today

[rocketrouquine]

Down to the chocker.

[fuckyeahfightlock]

Punk Rock Cool Kid Required Viewing Batch 1 The Punk Rock Movie Eraserhead Rock 'n' Roll High School

(I'm rewatching all the "required viewing" films of my alterna-teen years) Notes on these three films below the cut.

The Punk Rock Movie (1978, dir. Don Letts)

For three months in 1977, The Roxy nightclub was created for the express purpose of booking punk bands, who could not play anywhere else in London. DJ Don Letts started filming bands onstage and backstage, on a super 8 camera. The result is The Punk Rock Movie, a pure documentary film (no narrative, no narration) of a fingersnap moment in time.

The bad news is that this film (to my knowledge) has never been remastered either visually or for sound. Its specific, super-8 look serves it well and I don't know that it needs to be sharpened, but the sound is pure garbage. There are a few snippets of people talking but my 50+ year-old ears cannot make it out, due to low quality and background noise (guitars, other voices. . .in other words, nightclub noises). It's not a huge loss since 97% of the film is music, but I did wonder what Siouxsie & the Banshees were joking about as they took pill after pill after pill, or what a cool girl with a Union Jack shaved and dyed into the crown of her head (in 1977? that would have been so difficult!) had to say, or the thoughts of those ripped-from-the-headlines Shop Girls Sacked For Being Punk.

The live bands do not fare much better, but it's punk rock. A few of the performances are electrifying, most are so-so. Personally, after the opening "White Riot" by the Clash, I might recommend a casual viewer skip through to the last 20 minutes of the film, where we get fantastic versions of "Carcass" by Siouxsie & the Banshees, and "Oh, Bondage! Up Yours!" by X-Ray Spex, followed by the only bit not filmed at The Roxy, a short set by the Sex Pistols on the first night Sid Vicious ever played live with them, at Screen on the Green.

~*~*~Let's stop by Hyperbole Corner where I will assert the following: Johnny Rotten was the only real punk. Maybe it's his wild eyes, maybe it's his necktie. People later thought the Sex Pistols "selling out" represented the end of punk, but watch Johnny onstage and see if you don't agree with me. Hyperbole corner over.~*~*~

This film is not the most enjoyable to watch because of its low quality; even if you are an old punk and love punk music, it's kind of an endurance test. That said, if you are curious about the subculture, this is probably the purest, least polluted view of it; a person could learn a lot.

High- and lowlights include: Slaughter and the Dogs (inspiration for the Smiths), lingering shots of Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers shooting up heroin, Generation X (baby Billy Idol), someone cutting their torso with a razor about 50 times, The Slits (Ari Up was either autistic or had untreated ADHD or both; that girl was WILD), punk kids pogoing/slam dancing, cops dismantling and confiscating the window display at BOY boutique, Wayne (now Jayne) County and the Electric Chairs.

Definitely worth a watch if you want to see the real 1970s London punks, but probably not enjoyable for the casual viewer because of the quality (it's punk!).

Eraserhead (1977, dir. David Lynch)

Speaking of endurance tests, I'll confess up front I have zero intention of rewatching Eraserhead. I hated it then, I know I would hate it now, and it's one of those films I somehow have seen multiple times even though I hate it.

David Lynch is not for me--I looked through his entire filmography and did not find one movie of his I enjoyed--not even The Elephant Man, not even Twin Peaks. And I've seen a lot of his films! I just think surrealist films don't speak to me. Surrealist comedy, sure. Surrealist visual art, OK. But this is a No from me, dawg.

People I knew always cringed and shivered about the Radiator Lady, but that incessant worm-baby crying. . .I know the film is purposely designed to be uncomfortable, but jumping jayzis on the cross, that noise is irritating. And now that I've parented colicky infants. . .definitely No Thank.

I was doing my damnedest to be a certified cool kid, but I don't think I even pretended to like Eraserhead in 1987. It's just not for me.

Rock 'n Roll High School (1979, dir. Alan Arkush)

1970s teen comedies are always going to be pretty much the same thing: kids trying to lose their virginity, warring cliques, a borderline fascist principal, and casual racism/sexism (PS, where are the brown people?). So there are a few things to forgive here: a ticket scalper dressed in full Native American headdress (get it? "scalper"?); two hall monitors who shriek "body search!" at teen girls who later emerge from the office with disheveled hair and clothing (but otherwise seem fine, maybe mildly annoyed). But really. . .it could be a lot worse. I've seen a lot worse! I found it interesting that nobody swears in the film--not even a hell or damn--and while nubile young (female) bodies are somewhat on display in gym uniforms with tight tank tops and no bras, no one even references any body parts. The girls in gym class are only there for themselves--there aren't boys around and the girls are just dancing and singing "Rock 'n' Roll High School"--it's cute! Even in scenes about teens trying to get laid no one says "tits". Overall the film is oddly kind of innocent.

The main plot is that a girl has written songs she wants to pass along to her favourite band, The Ramones. Let me tell you that PJ Soles as "I'm Riff Randell, and I'm a rock-n-roller!" is the most adorable, likable teen girl I've ever seen in ANY teen movie.

She's zero-angst, bursting with confidence, witty, mischievous and not mean. . .this girl just wants to have fun! Riff somehow buys 100 tickets to a Ramones concert with $1000 she just happens to have (in 1979?! that's like a billion dollars now!), only to have them confiscated by the mean principal, Ms Togar. Zany antics and many, many Ramones songs/performances proliferate.

Riff's clothes and hair are New Wave style that made my inner child so jealous. She has a good friend who's a nerd but also praised as the most desirable girl in school.

PJ Soles is also perhaps history's greatest actress, as she swoons and even gets a little sexed up over cute and dreamy teen idol Jooooeeeeey Ramooooone--then cut to a literal monster. 6'6" tall with terrible teeth and possible albinism, Joey was the least attractive Ramone (not that any of them were very good looking--gun to my head, Dee Dee). The scene of Joey serenading Riff in her teenage bedroom has to be seen to be believed. That poor girl. Guess it goes to show you that when a guy's in a band, there's magic that makes girls love him even when he looks like Joey Ramone (RIP).

The Ramones concert the kids attend features an actual live performance by the Ramones. Unmatched energy, those fast/short/singable songs. . .Gabba Gabba Hey!

~*~*~Here in Hyperbole Corner we assert "Blitzkrieg Bop" is hands-down the greatest American punk song. We will not be taking questions at this time. Hey! Ho! Let's Go! Hyperbole Corner over.~*~*~

This movie has kids taking over the high school, every archetypal high school character (except a gay kid, or as I stated earlier, any brown ones), a food fight, the sexiest conversion van you have EVER. SEEN., and so much great music--mostly, but not all, by the Ramones. A fun watch if you look past the clunky stuff.

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Elke Sommer as Linka Karensky wearing a pale blue long slit dress from The Wrecking Crew (1968)

[sameschmidtdiffname]

I'm genuinely calling it here - Mike's getting scooped in the next movie. Deadass. They said they're leaning more into horror, the tag line for the movie is "No second chances" or something adjacent. Mickey boy over there is gonna get his guts slurpped in a way Vanessa can't compete with at the end of the next movie. $5 bets, right here, right now

[m4maverick]

[sochilll]

Olive’s parents in Easy A are really the parents of all time

[general-sleepy]

Watching older exploitation movies is a perilous experience, because you can be having a grand old time and then suddenly, holy shit I think they actually stabbed that mouse.

[pixlatedvampire]

I havent finished anything in a bit so please enjoy my favorite Grima doodles lmao 💗🥰

[pynkhues]

https://x.com/loust4t/status/1838065208046055446

This split second was so beyond devastating, Jacob makes Louis' agony so raw here. It's one of those moments where I wonder what it was like for him filming it and what it was like for Sam lying there experiencing it.

I really want them to revisit this moment and show the full thing, Louis (apparently having left to change clothes) coming back and seeing Lestat's body and it really hitting him. I wonder if they would--if any part of Lestat was conscious for this. Just curious because Lestat's last words in Claudia's diary weren't shown, so it seems like they might revisit it. And I still think too that there's ambiguity around what Lestat was intending to do to Claudia in that last episode (I initially assumed he was trying to kill her, but having Antoinette try to wrestle her into drinking some poisoned blood doesn't seem like a great way to do that?), so it could be something they revisit.

God, I know. Jacob is so, so good in that scene, especially playing Louis at such extreme emotional intensities across the board. He really is a phenomenal actor, and I can't imagine how taxing shooting that episode was for any of them, but especially for him.

I'm curious as to if they'd revisit Lestat's murder as well? Like, it does make sense that Lestat would want to talk about it both with Louis privately and with Daniel in the interview, but I actually wonder - now that ghost!Claudia has been basically confirmed - if it might not make more sense to have Lestat reconciling it with her? It was her plan after all, and the fact that they're both sort of perceived orchestrators of each other's 'deaths' offers so much to explore, especially given they never reconciled it in the way that was always inevitable for Lestat and Louis.

It feels like a real thread to pick up with the two of them too because, as you said, it's not really clear what Lestat was planning with Claudia. I mentioned it here, but it's interesting too that the poison Claudia uses isn't actually just arsenic, it's arsenic and laudanum, and the latter is actually a sedative as opposed to a poison. It really re-emphasises it, I think, as being a tool to make the murder happen, as opposed to the murder weapon itself.

He could've been thinking he and Antoinette would use that just to incapacitate her to kill her in the same way that she was using it on him, but Claudia's strength is in her strategising and bloodlust, not in her brute force. The show's really made a point of that both in her not being able to hold someone down long enough to turn them, but in how easily Bruce had managed to not just incapacitate her, but keep her that way.

Sure, Lestat was pretty ill during that sequence, but Lestat is all brute force, so if he'd wanted to kill her, I feel like he would have? Especially given he knew what the plan was for the night well before he showed it. In that sense, it really does feel like there's more there to explore, and I want to see it both because I think there's so much there, but also because I selfishly want to see what Delainey would do in that sequence too, haha.

[bending-sickle]

finally watched furiosa (interminable meh) and every time scrotus showed up i was like “…that’s fucking josh helman isn’t it?” and then the credits roll and…it’s fucking josh helman.

[kamakrazeeee]

tw: self-mutilation, blood, gore

forgot about this scene in the evil dead remake where this deadite rips through her cheek with a shard from the bathroom mirror and im like "omg slit core 😍"

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Nancy Kovack as Barbara wearing a small white shirt on The Silencers (1966)