Ligottian Horror Flicks

[waffles]

I'm not sure where to post this - perhaps Off the Radar Metal Recommendations - this thread seems the most appropriate:

It has puppets and made me think of The Sect of the Idiot

PORTAL Ω CURTAIN - YouTube

Pontypool.

A radio disc jockey begins his set in a small town on the Northern boarder.

People are going insane. Killing one another outside, forced to do this as puppets to a command-line which is beyond their control.

The killer is language itself. Human consciousness compromised. The film takes place entirely in a radio station. The horror is not one of brutality, but of the realization that the human mind itself is clay to the framework it functions in.

Then there is always Woyzeck by Werner Herzog, starring Klaus Kinski. A man is driven to insanity by a quack doctor taking over every aspect of his life, turning his life into machinizations, until he is driven mad.

[symbolique]

nil

[teguififthzeal]

Angel Heart had a really, really evil feel to it. Great movie.

[Waffiesnaq]

YouTube

I was deeply reminded of Ligotti whilst watching this. It has a darkly snug atmosphere of tension and dread that revolves entirely around ambiguous situations and sinister insinuations. To me the the story revealed a definitive thematic meaning (albeit a somewhat social realist one) following only the second viewing, much akin to my experiences with Ligotti rereadings—but during that first viewing one will most likely be busy asking strictly logistical and logical questions of "who," "what," "why," and "when" whenever the two principals discuss their special plan and its purpose.

[Corman]

I'll have a chance to see The Babadook next week, about a children's book that may or may not have unleashed a supernatural nightmare creature in a single mother's home.

The Babadook (2014) Official Trailer - YouTube

[Mad Madison]

Quote Originally Posted by Corman

I'll have a chance to see The Babadook next week, about a children's book that may or may not have unleashed a supernatural nightmare creature in a single mother's home. The Babadook (2014) Official Trailer - YouTube

My wife and I had the opportunity to watch this just the other night, and it is most certainly one of the more Ligottian horror flicks I've seen within recent memory.

All in all, I rated the film 4 1/2 out of 5 stars. I'd say the movie's storyline is at least somewhat better than today's average horror flick -- although I haven't exactly arrived at a definitive conclusion as to how I feel about it yet -- ,but it's really the aesthetic of the film that makes this a little gem of an especially Ligottian nature.

Highly recommended.

[Steinmeister]

Just yesterday I saw Japanese movie R100. Though not exactly a horror, it conveyed some heavy atmosphere of inertia and numbness and had a certain weird humor that reminded me of TL's stories.

R100 (2013) - IMDb

[teguififthzeal]

I thought the Babadook was more Ramsey Campbellish than Ligottian

[Mr.Plores]

I watched The Babadook while I was in very bad shape depression-wise last winter. It destroyed me. I felt exactly the way the protagonist does. Whatever is that ails you just creeps on you. It is insidious and dark. You realize you have become a monster when you least suspect it. In the protagonist's case she had her son as a "sparring partner" in that case, but there is little the kid can do. It hit very close to home.

Definitely more Campbellian than Ligottian, but still a pretty good movie.

There was talk about "The Beyond" by Lucio Fulci. I have seen most of his movies and the good thing is that the endings are always bad, It never ends good for the protagonists. Watch Zombi and "City of The Living Dead" great movies both. Complete hopelessness in the end.

I recently saw "Enemy". The scenery reminded me a bit of the way I imagined the city in MWINYD, some aspects of that movie could be called Ligottian. But it had too many sexual undertones which I did not quite get unfortunately.

	MWINYD My Work Is Not Yet Done