Recent Movie Purchases, part 2

[zombie no.one]

in other news a couple of days ago I got the Arrow bluray release of THE CAR (1977)



love 70s horror / disaster type stuff, but this was soooo corny and cheesy. still enjoyed it, but yeah this being mentioned in the same sentence as JAWS and DUEL (which the blurb on the inlay does) is a reach into infinity. I thought it might be a little darker (especially considering Anton LaVey was a consultant (...erm what?))

there's a scene where some random character shouts, for no reason, "CAT POOOO"! I rewound that bit and stuck subtitles on to see if I'd heard it right... on subtitles it came up as "TADPOLE"...which makes an equal lack of sense? but she clearly doesn't say "Tadpole", it's "Cat Pooo". no idea

[M.10rda]

Was she about to clean a litter box? That's a commonly heard rallying cry around my three-feline house...

I watched a B+W film from 1956 yesterday and indeed, it took me a while to get into it. Part of that was the leisurely pacing and part of it was that it was just a more or less pedestrian-looking movie in B+W for a while but then after the plot got going the DP clearly got more inspired and the texture of certain shots, the large spooky close-ups, the dilapidated setting... it all started registering as "ERASERHEAD-like" to me and suddenly I was in love. The film has very little in common w/ ERASERHEAD (except maybe mental illness and living in squalor) yet my pivotal early experience w/ ERASERHEAD runs so deep in me that it just becomes a reference point for many B+W films w/ moody cinematography. I had the same experience w/ the Korean film THE HOUSEKEEPER last summer. (That one did have a little more in common w/ a David Lynch film, though.)

[zombie no.one]

I think the reason it took me so long to see ERASERHEAD is because of the b/w...

Was she about to clean a litter box? That's a commonly heard rallying cry around my three-feline house...

she was shouting it at 'the car'... maybe it was some kind of obscure protest against catalytic converters. radical!

edit - the scene's been youtube-ized
https://youtu.be/0uL9bcr-4nw?si=IAJNZMGW8jmKjfRh