Grymm Ramblings

I feel like this is the first time in over a month that my brain isn't too exhausted to make an actual Ramblings post.

Life has been rough for a bit now hence the sudden drop in update frequency and lack of extra Patreon bits. But through it there have been some good bits. I've watched the hell out of some damn good movies in the past month.

Backrooms was a fun weirdcore horror ride. I still can't decide if I would have enjoyed it more or less if I went into blind without already watching its related youtube series. I do feel like someone at the studio told Kane to reign in the weird just enough not to completely alienate new viewers and that kind of shoots the vibe in the foot for a scene, but it was still a fun ride. It makes me hopeful that more weird ideas could get a budget thrown at them. I bet some SCP ideas could translate marvelously into some weird little movies.

The Amazing Digital Circus The Last Act isn't weirdcore, but it's another movie borne from a youtube series that I've been following. It's just emotional damage. If you've seen "I Saw The TV Glow", it will stab you in the heart in a similar way. 

Project Hail Mary is an incredibly satisfying sci-fi movie. It's just so hopeful? Hopeful despite the galactic level apocalypse happening. Hopeful, beautiful, a little heart wrenching. It feels like the movie equivalent of those posts you see about how humans will pack bond with anything, but how they're also weird, unstoppable horrors from the perspective of aliens. 

Obsession is the best movie on the year though. Hands down. Never have I felt so viscerally threatened and anxious by a movie. Inde Navarrette is a fucking acting powerhouse and I'd love to see more of her. Apparently the creator has already filmed another movie that takes place in the same narrative world and I can't wait to see it.

I feel like we might actually finally be seeing an end to parade of slop movies that the Disney Industrial Complex has been subjecting us to for years now. The only problem being is the potential that The Mouse will see weird horror and internet content as the hot new thing and swoop in to buy it all up and extrude it through its content meat grinder. 

But I'll hope for the best in the meantime. 

Oh hey, next page is coming along nicely by the way. The roughs are already done and up on the VWPatreon! 

I love you all. Hopefully I'll see you here this time next week.