Yes, I referred to The Shining…

Also, The Shawshank Redemption.

Forbidden Planet is nice. And, I haven’t seen The Day of the Triffids, but I recently read the novel. It is a rather flat sf novel of the old, bad sf style. But at least the early parts of the book is quite good. As you know I love Zombie movies and this one has the best part of those: almost everyone dies in the beginning.

I really have to watch Rocky Horror again. I remember the good (?) old days when I watched parts of it almost every night. Herregud.

With Stephen King, do you mean The Shining? King apparently hated Kubrick’s film (The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980)) and much preferred the mini series (The Shining (Mick Garris, 1997)). In the mini series garden bushes shaped as dinosaurs come alive in a computer animated attack, the family is chased by bees and, well, it totally lacks the psychological horror of Nicholson going bad. I haven’t read the book, but I get the impression the film is good more thanks to Kubrick.

You shouldn’t miss the Shining bunny re-enactment (or any other re-enactment, dairy (sic!) or pigeon cam from Angry Alien Productions).

Me and Helena have been working our way through 1950s science fiction lately, so expect more reviews as I write them. Many of them are double features and meant to be seen with another film, so they’re just over an hour long, which is usually enough to get the plot across. We fell asleep to Cat-Women of the Moon (Arthur Hilton, 1953) as the astronauts were attacked in a cave on the moon by a giant spider controlled by ropes (I’m not sure they were supposed to be visible), but I’ll give it another try. It’s got a 2.4 of 10 rating on IMDb, but the part I watched was so bad it was good.

The intro to Rocky Horror is shock-full of references, and I really would like to watch all the films mentioned:

“The original story is by Stephen King, and for some reason a lot of his works don’t translate well to cinema. This film is boring and predictable.”

On the other hand, one did.

I haven’t seen a single one of the movies. But a few seem interesting. I will check Deliverence out. And Hard Times.

By the way, I really like your “ten-in-one-reviews”. At slight difference between your reviews and my “one-a-day”. Keep the good writing up!

I liked Only Yesterday but I wouldn’t have given it such a high grade. It’s good, but I would have rated it as 6. But tell me one thing, is it in Only Yesterday they have this really disturbing commercial for Puma?

Babel is great. The Illusionist is good, but as we talked about in summer sometime I found Marie Antoinette too superficial. I just felt cardboard characters. Virgin Suicides is an amazing movie, though.

I should really see Perfume and Three faces of Eve.

Since we created characters and only played two or three scenes I can’t say whether the characters were unsafe or not. They sure had the potential to turn out to be really bad people that would be hard to like.

If I would mention a character that felt really unsafe, in the sense that I didn’t know if he was a hero or a villain while I was playing, it’s my renaissance sorcerer in Peter’s musketeer Sorcerer campaign. When we started playing I thought he was a good guy, but his decisions turned him into a really screwed up guy who cheated his employer, broke the heart of his mother and totally dominated his sister into submission.

What felt unsafe about him was that I couldn’t decide between sessions how I wanted things to turn out, as I was dependent on Peter’s input as game master. I needed his bangs to base my decisions on. It felt unsafe in a really good way.

- Jonas

I’m genuinely interested.

If not at SSK, perhaps we’ll get another chance. I have an inkling we might.

What are you and Peter up to then? How did the Mountain witch game go?