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LAST DAY AT THE BEACH
this one looks like the shortest i've done yet and it was a total blast. despite the appearance of the credits, this was early 90s and it really shows.
LAST DAY AT THE BEACH
this one looks like the shortest i've done yet and it was a total blast. despite the appearance of the credits, this was early 90s and it really shows.
generally, i dont like slashers for a number of reasons. most prominent is that in order to justify the entertainment value in watching people killed, they're most often written in order to present you with people that "deserve" it
common to both the best and worst of the genre, what makes the predator good is the same thing that makes prom night suck shit, hostel being the outer limit of what you can do with this kind of thing. this one does something slashers rarely bother with but SOV excels at
just some regular ass people. once again i found myself checking the time on this about halfway through because i thought it was a video that a corporation had made about what to do if someone tries to get you to join a union.
absolutely none of these people are actors, there's a bunch of really funny and obvious first take line readings in here, but it's written so naturally that you don't mind. not sure how they pulled that off, but it goes to show you acting is a real craft
compared to something like hotel hell (the ramsay show, not the slasher) though, its pretty refreshing to get a reminder that these are just real people that turned up for a weekend to make a movie. it's worlds away from reality tv where people are consciously playing characters
this is the common theme in practically all of these movies but it's worth highlighting every time. what does professional acting actually get you? we often dont discuss it any differently to the way we discuss magic tricks. if you can see the seams, and so on.
what details are we attuned to that 'feel real', as opposed to the pure artifice that's every movie you've ever seen? i could guess that's that guy's real jacket, and that woman really got that perm because she thought it looked nice, but i could easily be wrong.
it could be the incredibly low stakes - the womanizing barman believably loves his fiance but also has affection for his former fling. the handyman is so nervous about losing his job with a management change that he volunteers to be a scab, disappointing his colleagues
when the banal melodrama meets slasher plot, it pays off so well that most distaste i have for this kind of thing was nullified, the violence felt like a real and sudden intrusion. even the business guy who shows up and acts like a prick to everybody gets it kinda bad
this is basically what from dusk til dawn does, you're having a good time and all of a sudden people are dying gruesomely. i didnt necessarily sign up for that! oftentimes slashers get so up their own ass that the premise becomes "wouldn't it be cool to kill people"
well, no, it wouldn't! this guy's a sick fuck! what the hell! hardly a grim and gritty movie, and it's much more fun than im making it sound but definitely what makes it good is that it's not yukking it up about some assholes getting theirs
