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weirdlookindog · 3 months

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Sadismo (1967)

#sadismo #1967 #1960s movies #philip marx #pseudo documentary #exploitation #mondo

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nine-frames · 10 days

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Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive, 1989.

Dir. Wayne Wang | Writ. Spencer Nakasako, Amir Mokri & Wayne Wang | DOP Amir Mokri

#blood cw #life is cheap... but toilet paper is expensive #life is cheap but toilet paper is expensive #wayne wang #us film #hong kong film #1980s #cora miao #black comedy #pseudo documentary #dark drama

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schlock-luster-video · 1 year

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On March 28, 2020, The Watermelon Woman was re-released in the United Kingdom.

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harbingrs · 9 months

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Video of the day: the controversial BBC program that preceded the 'found footage' genre

Ghostwatch was a 1992 Halloween TV special created and aired by the BBC. It was made to look like a ghost-hunting show that goes off the rails - and it was presented as a live documentary or news program.

Yep, the BBC gave a bunch of kids the Marble Hornets treatment before there was any awareness of the genre, with some incredibly disturbing twists. Audiences weren't expecting this fiction-as-reality, to say the least, and there was massive fallout.

This was 7 years before The Blair Witch Project, which blurred the same lines in its marketing campaign, if not the film itself.

I'll add more detail and discussion in a reblog, since I don't want this post to get too long.

Content warnings for the video below:

paranormal themes & possession (including discussion of the real-life Enfield Poltergeist case/hoax which inspired Ghostwatch)

CSA (as part of the fictional story)

suicide (both real-life and fictional)

generally disturbing imagery

'mental age' language re: disability

#posts #videos #video of the day #suicide cw #paranormal cw #possession cw #I'm aware it wasn't the first example of pseudo-documentary horror #really that's everything from epistolary novels to urban legends #but it was nowhere near mainstream #found footage horror #documentary horror #I don't post horror content so don't follow me for that #I really just like themes and narratives #also there may be better videos on this #but for my sanity I'm not watching any more #unreality cw #more like unreality meta

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lonely-dog-song · 4 days

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some ppl's reviews for The Tunnel complain about the documentary-style interviews throughout the movie that don't add anything. i thought they were an interesting touch, & i was so tense i found myself being glad when they came up to break the tension a bit. but when it comes to immersion, they did break up the flow of the movie & i don't think they added anything that wasn't already present in the found footage. i guess it wasn't utilized well enough....

#lonely dog speaks #also charlie mentioned it was like the last broadcast 👍 that was a pretty good pseudo-documentary #i also saw someone's complaint that the credits including the actor's names ruined the immersion #?????? you don't want them to be credited???? come on

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not-souleaterpost · 2 months

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Napoleon and the positivity of negativity

So a few months ago, I wrote on how the Napoleon trailers sucked - cause they looked as if they made Napoleon into some generic comic book "epic" villian, like the blue guy from those Avengers movies people cried about to only forget about totally by now.

But then it turned out I was wrong - and people said it was worse - instead of a power fantasy it instead was a farce, basically making Napoleon into the biggest loser that doesnt weigh 300 pounds or more. I heard things like it was Anglo propoganda, that it Napoleon into a cerain word which I am tired of hearing on the net on yt videos with those poorly drawn white faces with various emotions of rage and mouth-openess, that it didn't even show any battles and claimed Napoleon was too dumb to win not by sheer luck, etc.

Oh also "historical inacuracy" - but I never cared bout that, cause I'm too smart- nah actually cause I'm too scatterbrained to remember enough details to be pedantic anyways.

So the question is - knowing all that I must not have watched the movie? Well I didn't, till a buddy wanted to go see it, rejecting my alternative suggestion of the Bob Marley biopic (someday…) And I thought "why not, lets see how shitty it is" And it started, me watching relaxed, with the lowest expectations, glib and cynical as if I was a 45 year old youtuber who can only make fun of other movies while giving up any artistic ambitions cause my intentionally bad movie was a bit too intentionally bad:

But then it started happening: Napoleon scared but determined, jumps on his horse, starts to ride on it only for the horse to get fucking shot with a canonball, Napoleon on the ground, literally shell shocked, his buddys saying "you alright", only for him after a moment of collecting himself, to run back into the battle, the frontlines and execute his cool anime plan.

Then I got what they (maybe) were getting at - the anime loser who becomes brave Napoleon, the Taxi Driver Napoleon, the internet shut-in Shizo Napoleon. Or the fight club Napoleon - cause Josephine at first was basically Marla or whatever her name was, just with less penguin's surfing around (well guess the dogs made up for that, French royals be crazy) But it wasn't then just some weird emasculation fantasy as you often see in the youtube comments on videos of cartoons that are made for kids - it kinda seemed at first, but then it genuinely became a kind of love story, one of two actually "baaaaaaad" people, who's ambitions turned into something real, even if twisted, and pathetic. The whole divorce scene with them crying - ofcourse one could read as "haha see how they are mocking Napoleon!" but what one felt was the genuine emotons and saddnes in them both.

And I could go on, but I ain't some 1million sub youtuber, so I cant just do summarys with vapid commentary - as Napoleon, I have to write something delusional and unhinged instead: So the thing is, if I went in, with no expectations, I probably would have missed all that - I would have been like all the whiners (no shade, I whine enough myself about everything, but its the best way of putting it):

"Oh Napoleon gets emasculated and controled by his wife who fucks the first guy she meets! Oh they are making him look scared and weird all the time cause they wanna make fun of him and people that think he was an interesting figure! Oh they have fake death counts to demonize him more than all the other royals who enslaved and killed people too!"

And I would have missed a movie that was pretty good. Not like a masterpiece, but compare it to that King Arthur movie by ol' Ridley from 2010 or whatever, this one atleast had some substance, had some artistic vision of reframing Napoleon as Raskalnikov while at the same time reconstructing him AS truly being bigger than life - cause you see how he struggles trough his weirdo excentrys, his various, as they call on here these day "neuro-divergencies" - but that he pushes thorugh them and makes himself magnetic - even if that magnetism pulls all them down into the same abyss…

So yeah tl;dr - Actually shitting on something is good cause either it is shit and then its justified, or maybe it makes it better once you got your expectations lowerd and preamptively delt with things which would have been devestating in the moment.

Also, I'm ofcourse being a bit tongue in cheeck, but if you still are angry or asking why I'm writting this instead on working on things I promised:

Yeah…Sorry

#napoleon 2023 #napoleon #ridley scott #also have a theory about Josephine being a stand in for the values of the revolution and how it betrayed Napoelon as he betrayed it later #meaning his ambitions of being some king ruined the potential and legacy making Napoleon be not remembered as the herold of liberty and #independece from greedy monarchs but as some proto hitler fascist #fight club #raskolnikov #irony of history #essay #meta #film review #synthesis #pseudo intelectuall #idk #napoelon dynamite the way that ship exploded #wait was this movie actually about napoleon dynamite if he got overly ambitious damn #also fuck it I agree with ridley scott that I dont care about history nerds what a documentary if you dont get movies not being about that #life #idk had some funny tags but got lost when soemthing went wrong and I could only save the main text #yeah...sorry #back to work #bob marley

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fullcolorfright · 11 months

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The Hellstrom Chronicle (1971)

#my screencaps #the hellstrom chronicle #1970s films #documentary film #like insects? like horror? watch this pseudo-documentary where you’ll learn a variety of horrifying bug facts #from a fictional scientist who talks like a conspiracy theorist #and who is obsessed with the potential for bugs to take over the world in the post-nuke apocalypse #the bug facts are real though

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occulthoss · 11 months

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T h e A t t i c u s

I n s t i t u t e. (2015)

#gif #horror gif #horror movie gifs #movies 🎥#🍿#thriller movie #demonic possession #demon #pseudo-documentary horror film #paranormal #red #the Atticus institute #scary movies #horror movie #horror movies #movie gif

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forgottenbones · 1 year

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Flayed Ones: Necron Zombies Who Will EAT YOU.

#david attenborough #pseudo #documentaries #warhammer 40k #shorts

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weirdlookindog · 3 months

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Sadismo (1967)

#sadismo #1967 #1960s movies #philip marx #pseudo documentary #exploitation #mondo #movie poster

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todd-queen · 6 months

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hi! I have slowly been watching behind-the-scenes/bonus features of all the Saw movies and I realize they are a bit hard to find! so I thought I would compile a list of the links I've used :) please enjoy!!

!!! NOT SPOILER FREE !!!

Saw 0.5 (2003)

A hospital orderly tells a police officer that he was kidnapped and forced to commit a horrific act to survive.

This is the short Leigh and James made before showing their script to American film producers :D

Making of Saw (2004)

A 30 minute behind-the-scenes of the Making of Saw

(I have watched this one so many times.... I think I will again after this list)

Saw: Full Disclosure Report (2005)

A pseudo-documentary taking place between the events of Saw and Saw II, included in the bonus material of the DVD of the first movie.

The Scott Tibbs Documentary (2006)

A pseudo-documentary taking place during and shortly after the events of Saw II. The documentary focuses on Scott Tibbs, who decides to film a documentary about the Jigsaw Killer.

(My other favorite. I love Scott so much he's my worstie <3)

Saw III Deleted Scenes (2006)

Lynn's Escape Attempt and 'Rockstar'

-Lynn attempts to escape and fights with Amanda

-Amanda interacts with Adam before kidnapping him

Amanda's Dream

-Amanda has a dream of Adam haunting her

(never forget what they took from us)

The Writing of Saw III (2006)

A 6-minute featurette for behind-the-scenes of Saw III

(if you're like me and eat up literally any bts content you can find then this is for you)

edit: I found a full BTS video that includes the Writing Of! now linked :)

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these are all I have so far! so please, do enjoy, and I'd love to talk about whatever your favorites are so please don't be shy, and thanks for checking this out :))

edit: @pendulumxx has a great addition with more videos here :)

and a big thank you to everyone who originally uploaded all these videos, truly doing god's work 🙏

#saw 2003 #saw 0.5 #saw bts #making of saw #saw full disclosure report #the scott tibbs documentary #scott tibbs #saw iii #saw 3 #lynn denlon #amanda young #adam stanheight #adam faulkner stanheight #leigh whannell #james wan #lawrence gordon #saw 2004 #saw ii #saw 2

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schlock-luster-video · 5 months

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On December 11, 2020, The Panic in Needle Park and Dusty and Sweets McGee were screened as a double-feature on TCM Underground.

Here's some new art inspired by both features!

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moonlitswimmingpooltv · 1 year

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HE HAS SIX NUCLEOTIDES????????? AND THEY DIDNT ELABORATE ON THAT?????

#sorry this is about e.t.#this is so cool #i want a pseudo-documentary about his two extra nucleotides please

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hadescavedish · 2 years

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Oh. So this is Trailer Park Boys

#It's pseudo documentary comedy #Ohhh #There's always a person holding camera around #Btw I went to watch it bc of Rush

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chimaerakitten · 5 months

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So I already made a joke about Temeraire having a cameo appearance in Batman but I genuinely think that he’d be the kind of historical figure/politician/celebrity who’d be in all sorts of things for brief appearances. Appeals to his ego. First one would be like, a silent film era pseudo-documentary about China but it just keeps rolling from there. Couple of movies about the Napoleonic wars in the 60s. A sci-fi film in the 70s. He plays himself in two episodes of Dr. Who and another fictional celestial dragon in three more. After the 2nd one people started a petition for him to play the first dragon Doctor

#temeraire

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elierlick · 9 months

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I spoke with NBC about how What Is a Woman? inspired a new form of far-right pseudo-documentary. Deceptive editing that aims to delegitimize the existence of trans people isn't innovative, but it is more widespread now than ever (link)

#trans #matt walsh #what is a woman

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