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any thoughts on the movie? or anything else discussed in the thread so far?

glad this thread's provoking these kinds of intense positive reactions.

abandoned mall?

ok. i’m just throwing stuff out here.

more fire imagery... the region of texas they're in is called "newt" (newts being a type of salamander - so referencing fire beings, witchcraft?) when they pick up the hitchhiker he takes a picture of them and then burns it - saw someone point out that if you believe in the old idea of...

definitely some sort of continuity with this stuff - the post 60s psychedelic imagination turning toward machines, industry

which goes back to what we were talking about w/ the underworld connotations of industrial ambience, the sounds and scenery of power stations and boiler rooms. obviously a more rural context here but still relevant. after i watched the movie the sounds of screaming + chainsaw revving...

lol at hooper being convinced the film would be rated pg

was wondering if anyone would catch that. it's a reference to this thread. the relation being, again, this sense of wrongness in the air you get everywhere in the movie - it takes place a year after this identified turning point. and maybe also w/ post industrial conditions negatively affecting...

had that experience watching halloween though

i agree that there are movies like that ofc but in this case, hard disagree

the opening credits are shots of the sun and maybe underbrush like the areas they get chased through later(?) but all tinted so that everything is just red and black, like the coals in a barbecue. heat without light. hell.

they're hippies going on an idyllic farmland trip but it's not the 60s anymore, it's the 70s. "i see your hair is burning, hills are filled with fire" "motel money murder madness, let's change the mood from glad to sadness" "there's a killer on the road, his brain is squirming like a toad . ...

"traditionally, the demonic spirits live in a kind of prison of heat without light" northrop frye watched this about a week ago and it's stayed in my mind. there's a deep sense of offness and wrongness permeating every moment, even in the beginning, well before the feeling reaches absurd levels...

yeah if version died suddenly i’d gladly write him a glowing obituary but i'd never compliment him to his face

the americans have ideas, it's the continental europeans who are devoid of thought

someone needs start collecting this genre of image

for a while i was obsessed with the two body snatch releases from 93. was curious what he'd done after the great "eyes on the horizon" and they lived up to my hopes. this was the one i listened to the most. almost symphonic in the way it cycles through different sections and variations on...

"down like syndrome": a chronological survey 1. rbx 2. budub 3. nicki minaj