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For this Wednesday Super Slop Night, first up is It (1990), the first film adaptation (albeit made for TV) of Stephen King’s famed 1987 horror novel, following a demon who haunts a group of small-town children in 1960 in the guise of an evil, murderous clown. Fast-forward 30 years, and the demon returns again, only this time, the kids are grown up and ready to fight back. Something something face your demons, but literally. Director Tommy Lee Wallace is otherwise best-known for Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982), which we previously watched. This was a big ratings hit when first aired on ABC in 1990, so let’s check it out.

After that is A Page of Madness (1926), a surrealist Japanese silent film about a man who works as an orderly at a mental hospital, hoping to free his wife, who is a patient after having attempted to drown their baby daughter; The daughter grows up, and the man tries to hide her mother from her, while his mental state deteriorates himself. That synopsis is probably about as much as you’ll understand from this, because it is famously more of a mood piece that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, relying on weird visuals and disorienting editing to unsettle the viewer. It is the most famous Japanese film of the 1920s, largely because it is one of the few that survives. This is the best-known film of director Teinosuke Kinugasa, who also made the Oscar-winning Gate of Hell (1953), which we have not yet watched.

We’ll start at 8PM EST on Blorptube, right here:

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Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• It: https://letterboxd.com/film/it-1990/
• A Page of Madness: https://letterboxd.com/film/a-page-of-madness/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• It: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/26102?index1=-1&index2=-1
• A Page of Madness: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017048/parentalguide/

CWs for It:

• Domestic violence.
• Abusive parents.
• Child abuse.
• Gaslighting.
• Belting of child.
• Stalking.
• Drug use.
• Animal corpses.
• Spiders.
• Bugs.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Slapping of woman.
• Bullying.
• Someone’s mouth is covered.
• Death of child.
• Deaths of animals.
• Demons.
• Suicide.
• Death of parent.
• Jump scares.
• Claustrophobia.
• Possession.
• Clowns.
• Shower scene.
• Ghosts.
• Natural bodies oof water.
• Vomiting.
• Someone is eaten alive.
• Decapitation.
• Prison scene.
• Mental hospital scene.
• Cancer.
• Hospital scene.
• Violent mentally-ill person.
• PTSD.
• Unstable reality.
• Dissociation.
• Anxiety attacks.
• Mental illness.
• Throat mutilation.
• Someone struggles to breathe.
• Choking.
• Flashing lights.
• Shaky cam.
• Screaming.
• Underwater scenes.
• Profanity.
• Someone is watched without their knowledge.
• Fat jokes.
• Ableism.
• N-word.
• Antisemitism.
• Age-gap romance.
• Incest.
• Suicide attempt.
• Self-harm.
• Sexualization of minor.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Implied sexual assault. Not depicted.
• Implied pedophilia.
• Chronic illness.
• Honking horns.
• Screeching tires.
• Blood and gore.
• Torture.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Stabbing.
• Unconsciosness.

CWs for A Page of Madness:

• Drowning of baby.
• Unstable reality.
• Mental hospital scenes.
• Mental illness.
• Fistfighting.

Links to movies:

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