Total run time: 3h15m of movies plus 15 minutes of interstitial High Art (piss break songs) = 3h30m
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Two movies featuring James Woods being James Woods. We learn about his tragic backstory of heavy violence. These movies come with a lot of content warnings, so be prepared.
Vampire$ (1998)
An adaptation of the piece of shit book Vampire$ by John Steakley. A team of vampire hunters backed by the Vatican hunt vampires in New Mexico. There’s blood! There’s violence! There’s weirdness! Men deal with their feelings in very unhealthy ways! Some cowboyesque gunslinger dude has revolvers that shoot silver bullets! This movie is a rare case where the movies adaptation is far better than the book, but this is still the weakest JC movie I’ve seen.
Content Warnings for Vampire$ (1998) (1h48m)
Violence and gore: SEVERE
- It is very bloody. Stabbings, people ripped in half with their internal organs showing, beheadings, corpse burning, head on spike, disemboweling,
Sexual violence: High (not much depicted, enough shown / hinted at that it would be very triggering to some)
- A woman is shown stumbling along with two men, bleeding from between her thighs. She’s then stripped naked and tied to a bed. Later she is beaten ¿but it’s “ok” because she’s turning into a vampire?
- Questionable depictions of sex workers
Other:
- vomiting
- f slur
- suicide attempt
Doesthedogdie: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/44513
UnconsentingMedia: https://www.unconsentingmedia.org/items/9500
IMDB Parental Guide: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120877/parentalguide/
TankieTube link to movie: https://tankie.tube/w/hwwPAovwMeQ2wayWkrydVZ
Videodrome (1983) (1h27m)
Content Warnings for Videodrome (1983) (1h27m)
A guy who bootlegs underground broadcasts of a snuff show gets more and more obsessed with the scenes he’s seeing. The boundaries between real life and the screen blur. Much body horror and “creative sex” ensues.
Violence and gore: SEVERE
- Body horror, transformations, goop and gore
- shooting, killing, GOOP AND GORE
- suicide on screen
- The main theme of the movie is about a guy who seeks out ever-worsening sexual snuff films so it gets fairly intense.
Sexual violence: SEVERE
- A woman burns her own breast with a cigarette
- Video of women being subjected to various BDSM scenes (whipping, piercing, burning, shocking the genitals). It’s implied this is not consensual and that they are later murdered. In fact it is not clear if this is BDSM or just straight up torture. -removed off screen heavily implied
Other:
- Themes of addiction
- hallucinations galore. It’s hard to follow what’s real and what isn’t.
- orientalism in the porn snuff films
Doesthedogdie: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/17646
UnconsentingMedia: https://www.unconsentingmedia.org/items/3485
IMDB Parental Guide: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086541/parentalguide/
TankieTube link to movie: https://tankie.tube/w/5vMx1yTQ83xE4XkWNUsokU
