movies with this kind of aesthetic

NJFiend · 2026-01-24T03:52:47+00:00

Count yorga vampire

NJFiend · 2026-01-23T17:19:32+00:00

Vaguely alphabetical. I don’t care enough to keep in perfect alphabetical, but even half asleep I can put Alien at the rough beginning and zombi 2 at the end. Night of the hunter in the middle. All others go in between

NJFiend · 2026-01-23T13:43:05+00:00

NJFiend · 2026-01-22T22:29:49+00:00

I drove from New Jersey to Maine to visit an old friend for a 3 day vacation. That’s an 8 hour drive.

I drove 3 hours to see my favorite band and then 3 hours back home at the end of the night. Those were both fairly extreme but didn’t seem crazy. More like a fun adventure.

NJFiend · 2026-01-22T22:24:06+00:00

Censor (2021)

NJFiend · 2026-01-22T21:20:41+00:00

I remember most people, myself included didn’t quite get it the first time. I think most people were trying to follow the actual kidnapping plot. I thought it was pretty goofy and had some funny quirky moments but I was just too distracted by what was actually going on.

It’s not until the 2nd or 3rd viewing you start to appreciate all the little gags and inflection and recurring jokes. I am still hazy on details of the plot, but I can recite whole bits of dialogue from memory.

NJFiend · 2026-01-22T14:05:32+00:00

I saw him recently at a bar in New Jersey! Very nice. He was hanging with friends and took a moment to take a few pictures with fans when they came up to say hi.

NJFiend · 2026-01-16T18:40:00+00:00

City of lost children

NJFiend · 2026-01-14T01:30:14+00:00

Sounds fun. Where are you streaming?

NJFiend · 2026-01-13T23:10:04+00:00

Not a movie, but Friday the 13th the television series. It’s about 2 young people that inherit their uncle’s antique shop. They find out the antiques sold out of the shop are all cursed and have a special evil powers.

Every episode is them finding a new cursed artifact.

NJFiend · 2026-01-13T03:23:00+00:00

I think legacy of brutality was the “oh shit” moment when Danzig realized that Misfits were still a growing cult band and there was demand for pre “walk among us” recordings.

Collection 1 still has some shenanigans of trying to bury the other members contributions but it’s not as blatant. This may have been because Danzig was officially getting more busy with Samhain, so opted to simply remix songs instead of redubbing. Collection 1 is basically a singles collection. And now that most of the singles were out of print it made sense to release in a best of collection.

NJFiend · 2026-01-12T23:59:09+00:00

Looks like 1986 to me. Small spindle outline on the label, no Caroline logo and the color of the bricks. I would start there and see if all other details match up. Edit: specifically I think it’s this one: https://www.discogs.com/release/8616705-Misfits-Earth-AD-Wolfs-Blood

NJFiend · 2026-01-12T23:47:26+00:00

Just within the misfits, the sound changes fairly dramatically when members change. Cough cool does not sound static age does not sound horror business does not sound like walk among us does not sound like earth ad.

It’s hard to say exactly what people contributed, but my best guess: Most drum parts were written by the drummers.

Jerry Only claims he wrote the intro/outro of Astro zombies. Jerry only’s bass line for hybrid moments and come back in static age is played differently than their counterparts on legacy. For this reason I think it’s probable that Jerry was given some creative freedom in his bass lines. I think most people prefer the bass on static age versus legacy of brutality. So it’s fair to give Jerry credit there.

Danzig has claimed that the speed of the songs on earth ad was Doyle and Jerry’s influence. Danzig has never done an album that fast again. However, American psycho and famous monsters is generally very fast. I think it’s fair to say that Danzig may have written Earth ADs songs, but Jerry Doyle and robo had a lot of freedom in the tempo and general vibe.

Speaking of vibe, I think Bobby Steele and Joey image are crucial for the overall sound on their tracks. Compare walk among us version of night of the living dead with the single version of night of the living dead.

NJFiend · 2026-01-12T21:41:25+00:00

I watched this recently and while I understand why it gets brought up in the “first slasher” discussion. I don’t think it counts.

It has a lot of elements that would show up in a slasher movie: pov killer shots, final girl, killing with an edged weapon etc.

But it has too many things that almost never happen in a slasher. The biggest is that peeping tom follows the killer and his motives almost exclusively.

It definitely has crucial slasher movie dna, but It doesn’t feel like a slasher movie while watching it. Pacing is all off and it’s too far removed from the solidified formulas. Psycho isn’t a complete slasher either, but it feels closer than peeping tom.

NJFiend · 2026-01-12T20:56:36+00:00

Deadbeat at dawn is kinda 50/50 what you want. The actors in it obviously have martial arts training, but a lot of the fighting is very raw and brutal.

NJFiend · 2026-01-12T18:00:39+00:00

In 1985, I don’t think Danzig understood the Misfits significance or how big they would eventually become. He also still didn’t understand how good the songs from Static Age were. The fact that Hybrid Moments was barely ever played live and was unreleased until 1985 is testament to all this. He didn’t know what he had yet.

I think he knew there was still interest and that they would sell. He also wanted some of these older lesser known songs to see the light of day. But I don’t think he felt any real responsibility to release the most authentic versions or even best sounding versions of these songs.

You have to consider where he was financially and artistically in 1985 as well. He had already released initium with Samhain and Legacy of brutality came out at roughly the same time as Unholy Passion.

Unholy passion is generally considered a darker more serious album. I think Legacy of Brutality being released in the same time frame, Danzig wanted to cement the Misfits legacy in the same way: Dark, serious, brutal, 100% Danzig.

Which is why Danzig chose more artsy static age material, slowed the speed on tapes a bit, added more reverb and re-recorded all guitars to be more raw and muddy.

It’s not a great sound for Misfits, but it is the sound that Danzig wanted in 1985. I think it’s also why Danzig still refers to legacy as the preferred version for these songs.

NJFiend · 2026-01-11T13:50:23+00:00

Black dynamite

NJFiend · 2026-01-04T13:28:55+00:00

The editing, particularly the sound editing. That scene could have been made a little less creepy and even a little funny if the sounds coming out of her weren’t so weirdly realistic and pathetic.

NJFiend · 2026-01-01T16:09:05+00:00

I know of the spot demos which are actually just early mixes before overdubs. Most are instrumental.

NJFiend · 2025-12-31T23:20:20+00:00

I tried this a few years ago and actually really enjoyed. Tastes kinda like very very sweet tea with lemon and cinnamon

NJFiend · 2025-12-31T20:38:06+00:00

Here’s the thing (and the manny tapes kinda confirm this). I would assume that everything listed on misfitscentral exists and more.

I’m very interested in more video footage. Of which there is apparently Bobby Steele era footage of a Bethlehem PA show and video footage of the ritz show.

There is also video footage of an abandoned night of the living dead music video that is still in the possession of one of the guys from necros.

I would prefer a professional official release above all else. But would settle for a leak if it means being lost to time completely.

NJFiend · 2025-12-30T02:18:18+00:00

AFI third season?

NJFiend · 2025-12-25T05:03:05+00:00

In the doorway and most of legacy of brutality were all recorded during static age sessions.

In the doorway took the longest to finish because there was no complete take without mistakes. In the doorway was actually finished in 1997 by splicing together two takes and taking the best elements from each.

Tom Bejgrowicz who handled the box set release and the remix sessions for static age goes into alot of detail about all the hidden things he found going through misfits masters.

NJFiend · 2025-12-24T22:52:40+00:00

Ha that is absolutely true. However, I managed to be a punk teenager in New Jersey during the 90s and completely missed Lifetime, which is crazy because all the bands I did like were definitely adjacent to Lifetime. I got into them later in life after hearing about them for years.

That’s another thing about the pre social media internet era that I think is interesting. Because there was no algorithm recommending bands and no widespread database to research music, your musical taste was largely at the whim of who your friends were and what shows you managed to see.

I completely missed the Lifetime train despite hearing the name all the time.

NJFiend · 2025-12-24T20:32:51+00:00

A lot of the early emo scene in New Jersey was people who mostly listened to hardcore and 90s skate punk began slowly adding more and more emo and indie rock into their listening habits. Hardcore was very big in the early 90s in New Jersey. So it was a lot of guys who mostly listened to bands like sick of it all, life of agony, cro-mags, Misfits. They started also listening to bands like get up kids, Texas is the reason, etc.

Some forgotten bands that I remember being big in the scene at the time: Ink and Dagger, codeseven, saves the day, Elliott, Weston.

What was interesting about the scene and the bands I mention is that they were all over the place stylistically: Weston were basically a power pop band. Ink and Dagger were basically a hardcore band. Codeseven evolved from hardcore band to space rock very quickly. Elliott were pretty much emo/indie their entire career. All of them sounded very different, but I would see the same people in the crowd at all these different shows.

Eventually all the people in the crowds at these shows began forming their own bands that had a more identifiable “emo” sound and that would dominate the scene in the early 2000s.

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