NP: Postcard from LA

[Dave Monroe]

Okay, still catching up, always easier to talk movies
than Pynchon, so ... actually, I was surprised at just
how much blood is shed--not to mention how many
throats are slits, how many organs are eviscerated
(that last victim ...)--on screen.  Tame, perhaps, by
horror movie standards (esp. those of those Italian
splatter flicks you seem to favor, Thomas), but still
... I'm not necessarily shocked or upset by that, but
it's not easy for me to watch, either.  But you should
have seen audience members bolt at that final scene in
In the Realm of the Senses.  By the way, we get that
new print of Nosferatu (the Murnau one, that is) this
week, with a live performace by the Alloy Orchestra
(see also, e.g., the reecenty video release of Dziga
Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera) ... but I'm with
David on FH, I think.  It wasn't hateful, but I wasn't
Absolutely Satisfied, either ...

--- Thomas Eckhardt <thomaseckhardt at yahoo.de> wrote:
> > What was From Hell like? 
> 
> Splatter and gore are mostly left to the
imagination, 
> which, in this case, is a good thing. Unfortunately
> the amount of spilled blood etc. increases
> substantially near the end of the movie.

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