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Anonymous asked: Where's Detective Lowe's cameo in Ultimate Spider-Man?

commanderriffraff:

askwacker:

He got his by a bus off camera.

It’s Detective LOVE.

Still waiting for the Detective Love spinoff book. 

Horrorthon 2015 – Oculus (2013)

Karen Gillan learns the hard way not to mess with a haunted mirror in Oculus. Started off mixed, but it got more interesting as it went along. Worth checking out.

Production company intro logos have gotten ridiculous. Not a single credit has rolled and this movie has had 4 animated/effects-ladened production company vignettes Relativity Media with a atoms and molecules that expand outward into a spiraling galaxy 24 seconds; Intrepid with a creepy priest-like figure standing atop a cliff as ominous lightning strikes 14 seconds; WWE Studios logo that begins zoomed in too close and then shifts to make the logo visible 18 seconds. A montage of spooky/ghostly horror tropes –Poltergeisty flapping book, creepy girl in a dress for BH Productions 17 seconds. We’re over a minute into this and the credits have not started.

And once they do, they all repeat. We get the exact same information in text form in seconds.

Karen Gillan’s ponytail is swaying with purpose and determination as she walks.

Is that Katee Sackhoff? Wow, she looks totally different with red hair to match Karen Gillan’s. That has to be a little demoralizing. You two are related so we want you to dye your hair to match hers because she’s higher billed.

The ominous talk of the present day storyline seems overwrought and hokey without a better understanding of the flashback events. 

Sideways head girl with the white eyes is certainly unsettling.

Karen Gillan seems far more traumatized by whatever happened than her brother who wound up in the mental institution.

I’m guessing the mirror drove Dad crazy and on a murderous rampage killing mom and then the brother had to kill the father in self defense but somehow wound up institutionalized for it.

Karen’s going ghost-hunter bonkers. She has super-technology set up to record everything, but not a digital camera? She has to change the “tapes” every 45 minutes?

Ugh the dialogue is just information dump after information dump. Usually you recap hundreds of years of bizarre recurring deaths with a little compassion or tone other than speed reading. That’s stupid. Why would she skip the 1970s incident from her litany until her brother asks about people trying to destroy the mirror?

Mirror, mirror on the wall. How can you insult the lovely Katee Sackhoff?

Not sure how I like the sudden shifting perspective recaps. When the shots were initially shown it wasn’t treated as though it was one characters perspective. We were the 3^rd person omniscient viewer watching the scene unfold. Now we’re being shown the same sequence but differently in the service of psychobabble explanation of perception of past events and memory. Feels like a cheat. Same thing with their argument which is then replayed on the tapes of them moving the cameras without their knowledge. This story isn’t being narrated. The filmmaker himself is the unreliable narrator tricking the audience.

The movie should have started with that full flashback of Katee going crazy and her father walking around with the hammer and chains. That was freaky as hell.

Someone’s gonna eat a lightbulb. OUCH! That’s gonna require serious medical attention. Or not.

This is not going to be pleasant. Don’t imagine Katee’s doing well locked in the bedroom.

This is doing a great job of showing their helplessness. The house stops them from calling, going to neighbors. Their dad is in a complete daze.

The escalation and interweaving of them watching themselves in the past has resolved some of my apprehensions. Much better way to handle things though we still have the trouble of not knowing what’s genuinely happening versus their perception. Is the phone call the fake or is her dead husband the fake.

If the house has such power over objects and perceptions, how could the weight possibly be effective to destroy the mirror?

The creepy lady visual is the one who died with the miscarriage, right? Why does that particular past murder manifest so prominently over the others?

That’s a disturbing Katee Sackhoff image, her chained at the neck, blood mouthed,  crawling on all fours and with a gun barrel under her chin.

The kid actors are both pretty solid.

Thanks for the help there, Tommy while Katee’s choking your sister.

Oh shit… Good job protecting each other. Decided not to post a photo of the climactic scene for those who haven’t seen this yet.

Well, it’s back to the asylum for you Tommy boy.

I really don’t know how the little kid could have been held responsible for the first time around. His father had chained his mother in the upstairs, abused her and then shot her multiple times. Killing the dad wasn’t self-defense? He mush have had a terrible lawyer.

Happy I watched this one. It has some problems but once the stuff in the house gets going, it’s pretty engaging. 

Horrorthon 2015 - What We Do In the Shadows (2015)

Brilliantly funny mashup of horror films and the mockumentary

We’re only a few minutes in and I love the design.

“Vampires don’t do dishes.”

 You have to just accept that so much of this makes absolutely no sense and go with it for comedy sake – they have a montage of photographs, but then can’t see themselves in mirrors so they have to draw each other before going out on the town.

It’s interesting how the comedy is occasionally intercut with genuinely frightening or horrifically gory sequences. The scene when they’re stalking Nick through the house is brilliantly shot and stacks up against any modern horror easily. And Viago trying to not make a mess by laying down newspaper but then failing miserably is hilarious.

Ha, the Flight of the Concord’s manager is a werewolf. The vampire/werewolf rumble is great.

The reality tropes are brilliant – Nick’s vampire confessional.

Vampire vomit is wonderfully disgusting.

Jesus, when Petyr bursts into flames, that’s terrifying.

Great fucking film. I’d rank it with Best In Show or A Mighty Wind and could rewatch again and again picking up new jokes each time.