sweeneytom

Macabre

I thought I was done for at least today, possibly until the weekend (I currently plan on making my first trip to a theater in over a year! for Spiral, the new Saw film!) but couldn't pass up the opportunity to do a double feature of Macabres once I discovered there was more than one horror film with that title on Tubi! While William Castle's Macabre ultimately felt more well-paced, even if it underwhelmed a bit with where that ended up, I enjoyed Lamberto Bava's Macabre more I'm not as familiar with Lamberto's work as his dad Mario's, his only other film I've seen is Demons, which I obviously loved. With this I can already tell I'm going to have to give a rewatch soon, because I wasn't prepared for the directions it'd take or how tense it felt while getting there. Veronica Zinny did a fantastic job of being an evil asshole kid who just really, [i]really[/i] never stops being an evil asshole, even among a group of people where being an asshole kinda blends you in. Stanko Molnar plays Robert Duval, a blind man who makes every scene more tense by his actions feeling like a man who both knows more than he's letting on at the moment, and is getting more and more prepared to act on it if necessary. And while it takes a bit longer than for those two, toward the end Bernice Stegers as Jane comes together as somehow the one with less a grip on reality than either of them combined To think it all starts with Jane losing her son and the man she's having an affair with in two tragedies in an hour. What follows is a very slow burn that feels like it'd fit right in in an R-rated soap opera, as Jane struggles to keep it together by day but appears and sounds rejuvenated at night, making Robert suspicious and jealous, and the asshole kid even more of an asshole craving attention not even being the only kid left in the family could grant her By the end credits of Macabre it all comes together leaving you gross as fuck and wanting a shower. It's the best horror film named Macabre I watched today. I think I should give more Lamberto Bava works a watch soon!