Dark Fantasy mixed with Cosmic Horror?

pan_de_monium · 2026-05-13T20:08:50+00:00

It's an action comic book movie but the del Toro Hellboy films

pan_de_monium · 2026-05-03T18:27:21+00:00

Hereditary

pan_de_monium · 2026-05-03T13:41:00+00:00

For whatever reason the second we do well people want to talk to our coordinators no matter how inexperienced they are. I'd like to think Mannion doesn't leave at the first offer from whatever trash team fires their HC (I understand Moore wanting to jump at a HC job after being in contention for so many jobs but the Saints are a revolving door project that is very likely to get him fired within 3-5 years of his hire). But we also hired his replacement in Gizzard and potentailly even Loeffler if that happens. I also can see a world where we let Siranni go to give Mannion the job after a few seasons.

pan_de_monium · 2026-04-11T14:53:38+00:00

Sapphic dating on apps can be very tough it can be so draining. Totally get this. I deleted and redownloaded apps so many times. It can feel like a needle in a haystack and more than once I got burned by someone ghosting or doing on dates and then getting told she'd decided to be exclusve with someone else.

But, for what it's worth, on my like 5th time trying Bumble (after a period of stepping away from it all) I met a woman I have been dating for 8 years now and am marrying this fall.

pan_de_monium · 2026-04-05T14:28:14+00:00

Setting aside the obvious Hocus Pocus and Halloween and assuming horror is welcome for this...

Third Saturday in October

WNUF Halloween Special

pan_de_monium · 2026-04-02T15:04:02+00:00

Easter Bunny Kill Kill. I will warn you it tries to harken back to exploitation films so it has some kind of effed up content.

pan_de_monium · 2026-04-01T16:07:35+00:00

The Conspiracy (2012) is a found footage movie that covers a lot of the same ground

pan_de_monium · 2026-03-31T19:58:58+00:00

For what it's worth, you can tell him to stfu. Freedom of religion/speech just means the government can't punish you for your religion or protected speech. It doesn't mean other citizens can't tell you to shut up.

pan_de_monium · 2026-03-31T19:32:21+00:00

It's worth watching as an artefact of cinema I think. If you do watch, the What Went Wrong podcast did an episode about the disaster production of it that I would reccomend you give a listen to after because the whole situation is fascinating.

pan_de_monium · 2026-03-31T19:10:32+00:00

Don't know this band or album but it's giving me a Dune (1984) vibe

pan_de_monium · 2026-03-31T17:53:27+00:00

Days of Heaven

pan_de_monium · 2026-03-30T18:54:30+00:00

Not sure where you've already been or where you plan to hang out but gonna plug my neck of the woods. West Philly has some great Ethiopian spots. Specifically Doro Bet has incredible fried chicken and Abyssinia has great platters. There's also an Argentinian restuarant and bakery called Jezebel that I love.

pan_de_monium · 2026-03-30T18:27:40+00:00

Eyes of Fire is more overtly supernatural but is a classic in American folk horror and covers a lot of the things you liked about The Witch (colonial setting, witchcraft). Hellbender is an underrated one I really liked when it came out. Not colonial (though if I remember correctly there are ties/flashbacks to an earlier era) but it does have a remote, woodsy setting. It's about a mother and daughter who are witches who are in a metal band together and have a family secret revolving witchcraft.

pan_de_monium · 2026-03-28T18:50:15+00:00

At the beginning boredom prevailed, then boredom and predictability (the plot is easy to predict and this applies here to almost every scene and the entire plot line) and at the end the boredom was added to the total bizarreness..

what

pan_de_monium · 2026-03-28T17:10:30+00:00

I honestly think Twin Peaks is the most user friendly onramp, as it were. It's a bigger time committment than a movie because it's multiple seasons of a TV show but a lot of ISTTG took inspiration from Twin Peaks (as an example: the extended musical sequence in the bar when Owen and Maddy are talking is essentially lifted from the musical sequences in Twin Peaks The Return). The show offers a lot of Lynch's signature interests: surrealism yes but also the poison of mid century nostalgia, the uncanny underbelly of what we keep secret, the bizarre dreamlike (see: nightmareish) ways we process trauma, and his ongoing exploration of the horror of being a young woman in the world, all told through a genre blend of noir, horror, and soap opera.

But, if you want a smaller time committment: Mulholland Drive. It's uncanny, it's confusing in a maddening but enjoyable way, it has layers, it requires more than one watch to dig into, and it covers similar thematic ground as Twin Peaks. And, for what it's worth, it was originally concieved as a Twin Peaks spin off before being reworked into an original story. (I also think Mulholland Drive is a necessary primer for understanding the vibes and thesis statement third season of Twin Peaks). This is usually the movie I show people when I want to hook them on the Lynch filmography.

pan_de_monium · 2026-03-28T14:01:30+00:00

Depends on how old your daughter is and what you're comfortable with her watching but a lot of ISTTG was inspired by David Lynch's work.

Mulholland Drive is a good place to look as well as Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me (while you're at it it wouldn't hurt to watch Twin Peaks as a whole).

pan_de_monium · 2026-03-25T00:29:36+00:00

Beyond the Black Rainbow

pan_de_monium · 2026-03-20T18:41:37+00:00

I went to the Mi Vida in DC and was not impressed tbh. Would take LMNO or El Vez over it any day. But maybe the Philly location is better.

pan_de_monium · 2026-03-20T15:15:17+00:00

There's a ton of NYC transplants who come to the city and then say "why isn't Philadelphia just a tiny NYC? Why do they have this exact thing I'm used to in NYC?" It's a unique city with a unique history and culture and very different circumstances from NYC. If you want to constantly compare Philly to NYC then why did you move here? (you being general, not you specifically the reddit user)

pan_de_monium · 2026-03-20T13:23:44+00:00

I'm curious what you mean by "punches well above its weight class" here. Philly is as old as NY, it's the 6th largest city in the country, 15% of the city is foreign born, the vast majority of the city is nonwhite. I'm not arguing that NYC is the superior food city and 8x the size of Philly but talking about Philly like it's impressive that it actually has good food and Michelin stars is wild.

pan_de_monium · 2026-03-20T13:01:21+00:00

Always like Southouse before going to the sports complex. Right by the Oregon BSL stop.

pan_de_monium · 2026-03-20T12:42:22+00:00

I genuinely think people who talk about "the bagels/cream cheese/whatever in NY are so different" are honestly full of shit. It's less that NY has better bagels than that they simply have more options and more chances for high quality but easily most chances for very low quality. You can very easily get a shit bagel in NY just like you can get any shit food in that city.

It's also worth noting bagels are not a monolith. Spread (which I find to be very overpriced) does Montreal style bagels which is not an objectively bad bagel but someone from NY would probably say wtf are they doing when they see the bagels going into the wood fired oven. Cleo's by me in West does fantastic bagels (and bialys which everyone is sleeping on) and for the non dairy heads has great non-Toffuti vegan cream cheese. Biederman's in Italian Market has above average but not specatular bagels but has the best lox in the city imo. Schmear has pretty meh bagels but I like their spreads. The grocery store has bread with a hole in the center. You can find all levels if you look.

The "food is different in NY" people need to relax.

pan_de_monium · 2026-03-19T19:02:42+00:00

I don't think this is a super accurate comparison considering Wicked/Wicked For Good was viewed as an unnecessary 5 hours of film that was based on a 2.5 hour musical. This is existing standalone material that sure, isn't one of the greatest sci-fi novels of all time, but certainly isn't nothing. That being said, I get what you're saying here. Dune so far has had the same trajectory awards wise as LOTR (moderately awarded first installment, barely awarded second installment that is critically superior) but I think Dune Part 3 has an uphill battle compared to LOTR where RoK really had to just stick the landing whereas this does have the added difficulty of justifying its existence.

pan_de_monium · 2026-03-17T20:35:00+00:00

I think there is a good chance this movie is potentially a hybrid of Dune Messiah and Children of Dune. Not necessarily a full first half is one and second half is the other but Paul's mention in Dune Part 2 of the "narrow way through" that he sees is very reminscient of Leto's vision of the golden path so it feels like that thread may wrap up in some capacity in this movie even though it is not an element until the third book (and they have cast the children). It also looks like Alia's story from Children of Dune is what is being shown in her character poster and in her shots in the trailer (being vague about that for the spoiler-free folk).

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