so give me the benefit of the doubt, eh?

Give you the benefit of the doubt for what?

Replace aboriginal with irish in your post. Would you still feel the same way?

Absolutely, why wouldn’t I?

So it was kids that set it on fire then?
Or is that just an assumption?

I saw “that side” of Australia when I was living there.
I saw Aboriginal people being refused service in pubs and restaurants.
I saw white people literally spitting at aboriginals in the street.
I saw the Australian government concoct a bogus child abuse scare in Aboriginal communities to continue the age old tradition of stealing children from those same communities.
I saw the systematic removal of state health and education services from rural Aboriginal communities.
I saw a culture that sells “aboriginal” art at every truck-stop, but which desecrates sacred aboriginal sites over and over again.
I saw Aboriginal people engaged in crime and anti-social behaviour, some of which aimed at me.
I saw Aboriginal people drunk at 11am regularly.
I also saw white people drunk at that time and also engaging in crime and anti-social behaviour, some of which aimed at me.
I managed not to hate either group, as most of these problems are created by only a small section of either community, it’s just that the problems created by people in positions of power seem to have an impact in creating the sort of bad feeling, poverty and desperation that are fertile breeding grounds for the sorts of problems created by those who have no power, be they Aboriginal, white or otherwise.

I love a bit of grot, but that film is just horrible garbage.

I just read the plot of A Serbian Film on Wikipedia

You’ve already gone too far…

All nighter at cinema sounds ace btw!

It is, but I’ve never made it all the way to the end before in 3 attempts… it’s 10 solid hours of movies!
Have to do it this time, they’re finishing with Nightmare on elm Street, can’t miss that.

Going to an all night horror marathon tonight at a local cinema.
28 days later
The eyes of my mother
Young Frankenstein
A nightmare on elm Street
There’s also a mystery film, even if it’s shit, the other four are more than worth the £25 quid (which includes bottomless coffee).
Might have a little nap in a minute.

I’m watching it right now.

Dang, that really takes me back.

Wicked film.

Was it this, jimjam?

*EDIT* it must be this, there can’t be two films about a detective hunting a killer that turns out to be a shit xenmorph…or can there? :D

There was one in particular I wish I could remember – a hardboiled detective hunting a serial killer, which turned out to be a Xenomorph iirc.

Was Rutger Hauer in it?

Also, not “found footage” as such, but a good ancestor of the Blair Witch is the Legend of Boggy Creek from 1972. Proper cheesy at times and more of a mockumentary but you can see the DNA of the Blair Witch in it.

I have been trying to recall name of Italian horror film where the villain was transforming every victim to a wax doll. Colour film so maybe from 70s

Not from the 70’s but it could be Wax Mask, a Lucio Fulci screenplay rewritten by Dario Argento and directed by Sergio Stivaletti in 1997?

The thing is for the persistent horror fan that is bait no matter how you put it.

Maybe, deep down, I want people to share my pain. Don’t do it though.

Don’t.

Also, an anti-recommendation.
Do not watch A Serbian Film.
I’m not saying this as a dare or to be clever, I cannot make the images go away, and they really aren’t the sort of images you want seared onto your brain.

**** unnecessarily unpleasant piece of shit film (and this is coming from someone who likes Gaspar Noé films).

I could see why it was novel at the time but didn’t do much for me.

Yeah, a lot of the Italian stuff from the 70’s and early 80’s is a bit marmite. Where the low budget, American grindhouse stuff (which there’s nothing wrong with) got repeated summer after summer at drive-ins then given the full nostalgia treatment in the last decade, the Italian horror from the same era never really seeped into popular culture the same way (with the exception, perhaps, of Cannibal Holocaust). For a lot of people, the Italian Horrors seem more dated when maybe, in fact, they’re just less familiar. Either way, I think there’s some real classics deserving of a wider audience, including…

The House by the Cemetery (Lucio Fulci)
The Beyond (Lucio Fulci)
A Hatchet for the Honeymoon (Mario Bava)
A Bay of Blood (Mario Bava)
Anthropophagus (Joe D’Amato)
Cannibal Holocaust (Ruggero Deodato)
Zombie Flesh Eaters (Lucio Fulci)
Demons 1+2 (Lamberto Bava)
The House on the Edge of the Park (Ruggero Deodato)
The Night Train Murders (Aldo Lado)

Dario Argento was the master at skirting that line between thriller, mystery and horror. He was so good at using the camera to create tension and his death scenes were pure payoff. Now, it’s not for everyone, it hasn’t aged brilliantly and it is mostly women being murdered, but I could watch Argento films pretty much non stop and never get bored.

Won’t post them directly because they’re a bit rude (boobies) and pretty grizzly but here are two clips that emphasize what I’m talking about.

Tenebrae

Suspiria

Too many “horror” films rely on cheap tricks and jump scares to create tension. A good director and DP make all the difference, Sicario being a case in point (as mentioned above). It isn’t a horror film, but the tension…oh my god, the tension.

Also, the original version of Maniac (starring the late, great Joe Spinell) was a great horror film, the perfect distillation of the whole 42nd St. grindhouse thing with the added bonus of a brilliantly nuanced lead performance which elevated the Psycho killer almost to a position of pathos.

Sorry, pretentious rambling…I bloody love horror films…

If 5600 Muslim extremists blew themselves up, I think we’d be having a pretty big discussion about Islam.

I’d say that about 30% of people driving at any one time are doing so in a daydream.
The other 70% are just trying to get there first.

I don’t know where “there” is, but from the way some people drive, I’d guess it’s amazing.

Half man half biscuit. Comedy, yes…comedy band? **** no.

Can’t believe it got to page two before they got a mention.

Geetee, I’m sorry to hear that you’ve been a victim of abuse. I’ve spent years working with both victims and perpetrators of abuse and the main thing I’ve learned is that trauma expresses itself in so many different ways. Despite that, trauma is still trauma and you have my sympathy.
That being said, your comments regarding the numbers of women dealing with harassment and abuse are unfair, you don’t get to judge others’ experiences, just as others don’t have the right to judge yours.
For some of you having a go at geetee, he’s said enough questionable shit that you can challenge without resorting to bullying.

Novation Launchkey 25 is also good as a midi/usb controller, as it comes bundled with Ableton Live Lite, which is a good way of testing the waters with DAW sofware without breaking the bank.

Look at the korg volca series and the arturia microbrute for hardware, get to learn the basics of synthesis and beatmaking without spending a lot of money (most of them are £100 each, cheaper on ebay).

The microgranny is awesome, it uses granular synthesis, which may be a little complex for a beginner, still not sure I fully understand it, and i’ve been wasting money on this shit for over a decade.

Mats Gustafsson, probably the worlds greatest living saxophonist.

I was holding off on the Sun Ra, but if you’re gonna post cheryl videos…

Wait for it…

Right, can we all **** off now?

Just bought an Endura Singletrack on sale. Fits OK (I’m a big guy, the XXL is just right), better than the stealth I used to have, which was a bit snug. The arms are nice and long and there’s just enough jacket converting my backside.

Haven’t been soaked in it yet, but has handled a couple of showers well. I imagine that water will get in the zips in a downpour, but all jackets wet out eventually. The inner material does make the arms a bit clammy if wearing short sleeves under it, but for £60, I’m not about to start complaining.

#EDIT#

Forgot to mention, rolls up pretty small, surprisingly packable.

Roadman keep some Peng tings in his bag, innit, fam.

Dem yoot round this way been wearing them bags for years. Roadman looks been strong round here at least 5 years.

On the other side of the argument, Sherwood Pines is only any good at this time of year because of all the mud.

It’s shit in the dry.

I genuinely did not think this morning that I would go away from this thread with so much knowledge about crabs and lobsters.

Did you sign it all in capitals though? It won’t count if you don’t do it all in capitals.