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Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated Mother! (2017) in Movies

Jan 24, 2018 (Updated Jan 24, 2018)  
Mother! (2017)
Mother! (2017)
2017 | Drama, Horror, Mystery
1
6.3 (48 Ratings)
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Tries too hard to be something innovative but just turns out terrible
What an abysmal film. Convoluted to the extreme with very little actual plot. The main aspect of the film surrounds a lonely housewife played by Jennifer Lawrence and her troubled poet husband (Javier Bardem), and their unexpected house guests. From the first moment, we see Lawrence's strange eccentricities, her clear connection with the house itself. The more the house is disturbed, the more she is troubled and vice versa.

The guests begin to behave more and more erratically, to the point of ridiculousness. I have to say, I hated this film. It just made me extremely angry. Baby cannibalism is just uncalled for.
  
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Dean (6921 KP) Mar 2, 2019

If you like this check out the neon demon and Serenity both a bit surreal.
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Stephen (210 KP) Mar 2, 2019

Shall have a look at those, thanks for the recommendation ?
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Ducklady (1174 KP) rated the Xbox One version of Little Nightmares in Video Games

Mar 22, 2020  
Little Nightmares
Little Nightmares
Action/Adventure
8
8.5 (4 Ratings)
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This game was so incredibly dark and disturbing while at the same time being mesmerising and beautiful. It is about a little girl called Six who seems to have been kidnapped and has to escape a ship filled with what appear to be monsters and creatures. The imagery is downright creepy, from the suicide connotations and the cannibalism. The "enemies" that Six must avoid to get out include a long armed "janitor", Vile looking "Twin Chefs", obese monstrous "guests" and a humming geisha lady who is the most threatening of all.
I highly recommend this game, its fun and quirky to play for a quick play through but has lots of interesting hidden content to explore and fun achievements to unlock.
  
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John Berendt recommended Exquisite Corpse in Books (curated)

 
Exquisite Corpse
Exquisite Corpse
Poppy Z. Brite | 1997 | Horror
9.5 (2 Ratings)
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"Call it Extreme Southern Gothic, New Orleans division. The protagonists of this dark French Quarter novel are knee-deep in murder, torture, sex and cannibalism. The story is unabashedly grim (or as Brite himself puts it, “twisted, horrific”), but Brite’s prose is crystal clear, and his literate tone is sufficiently wry and ironic that it creates a sort of safety zone in which readers not normally drawn to this sort of stuff (myself included) can take refuge while they read. But even arm’s-length readers are apt to find themselves being drawn further and further into the story—seduced in spite of the themselves. Material that would be merely sick, disgusting, and unreadable in the hands of a lesser writer is, with Brite at the controls, surprisingly erotic and captivating. It’s a tour de force, in a literary category all by itself."

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ClareR (5542 KP) rated A Certain Hunger in Books

Mar 16, 2023  
A Certain Hunger
A Certain Hunger
Chelsea G. Summers | 2022 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry, Horror, Thriller
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
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Who knew that I’d enjoy a book about a food critic who branches out to the more refined tastes of cannibalism. And yet here we are.

I mean, if you’re going to murder someone, why not go the whole hog and make something nice out of their buttocks or their tongue? Yes, it’s gory, but Dorothy Daniels is such a narcissistic psychopath that it’s all done so terribly nicely.

I listened to this on audiobook as I read it, and maybe I’ve been able to take something else from this. The Narrator, Dorothy (aka Hillary Huber), sounded superior, well-educated and completely logical. Obviously she’s not - she’s writing her memoir sat in a prison cell!

What would have been the icing on the cake, would have been someone finding her memoirs at the end.

Clearly this will be a marmite book, and as someone who is usually ambivalent about marmite, I actually rather liked Dorothy Daniels and her distinctive tastes!