It should be noted that I have a real soft spot for 1970s eurohorror—the visuals are so fun, and the vibes are unmatched—but this one was particularly fun. Just looking at the pictures here made me want to watch it again, heh.
Oh, bummer, I'd like to take a whole class JUST on the exploitation films of that era. Have fun with that class, though—all of my film studies have been self-directed, but I still daydream about finding the time to take some online film classes at some point? (The degree to which I'm looking forward to hitting retirement age is probably ridiculous, but the idea of having all that TIME to engage with all of the media I'd like to engage with is basically my personal definition of Living the Dream.)
I tend to be the same way—learning about one thing leads me to research off in, like, fifteen other directions. Lucky break that I became a librarian?
Oh, yeah, everything around the Code is fascinating—and once I learned about the Code, I found it SUPER fun to start watching for the different ways that folks circumvented it, or to think about how it affected book-to-film adaptations like Rebecca or The Bad Seed. (And obviously I occasionally get mad/sad about all of the movies that COULD have been, etc., etc., or frustrated thinking about how the Code turned movies into such a funhouse/fractured mirror of reality, an incomplete and sanitized reflection of the world as some folks wanted to imagine it was/should be, not as it is.)
It should be noted that I have a real soft spot for 1970s eurohorror—the visuals are so fun, and the vibes are unmatched—but this one was particularly fun. Just looking at the pictures here made me want to watch it again, heh.
Oh, bummer, I'd like to take a whole class JUST on the exploitation films of that era. Have fun with that class, though—all of my film studies have been self-directed, but I still daydream about finding the time to take some online film classes at some point? (The degree to which I'm looking forward to hitting retirement age is probably ridiculous, but the idea of having all that TIME to engage with all of the media I'd like to engage with is basically my personal definition of Living the Dream.)
I tend to be the same way—learning about one thing leads me to research off in, like, fifteen other directions. Lucky break that I became a librarian?
Oh, yeah, everything around the Code is fascinating—and once I learned about the Code, I found it SUPER fun to start watching for the different ways that folks circumvented it, or to think about how it affected book-to-film adaptations like Rebecca or The Bad Seed. (And obviously I occasionally get mad/sad about all of the movies that COULD have been, etc., etc., or frustrated thinking about how the Code turned movies into such a funhouse/fractured mirror of reality, an incomplete and sanitized reflection of the world as some folks wanted to imagine it was/should be, not as it is.)