Lovecraft is interesting as his works are far more important for what they did rather than the stories themselves. He is credited with pioneering cosmic horror, which is true to a large degree, but I enjoy stories influenced by him much more than his own works.
I agree, but it is easier to build on to something compared to creating it from the ground up. I'm just saying, he is still the guy that dug through the dirt and planted the seed.
The whole "I bet you couldn't make a better movie" argument is so idiotic to me. I don't have to be a master filmmaker to criticize both a film and the backstage shit that happened making it. In a way using that as some sort of cat counter to criticism shows that you have no actual answer to them. It's basically an acceptance that, yeah the criticism's probably right, but you probably couldn't do better.
Fr. Just because they couldn't "do better" doesn't stop something from still being criticized. It feels like a cop-out response, like "yeah it sucks but its still a movie."
I saw a comic once who was talking about criticizing bad parents even though he doesn't have kids, and his punchline applies to so many situations, like what you're talking about. He said "I've never flown a helicopter but if I saw a helicopter crashed in a tree I'd know that's a shitty pilot." Comic is Steve Hofstetter, dude is hilarious
@@indigozulu9 Pretty sure I've seen him say that joke and it's the perfect counterpoint do it. I've seen movies that were good and also didn't have backstage turmoil and injured actresses.
It's funny how it works only with art, too? If you get garbage food at a restaurant, people usually don't go "Well, you try making something better!". Because that would be pretty dumb.
As a fan of Motherland: Fort Salem I always thought the scar on the actress was part of her character so imagine my shock hearing that she got it because of a unprofessional freak
I used to do sfx makeup for films a few years ago, nearly all just local short films which was fun. I did the makeup for 1 feature length film, and the production was so absolutely horrible that I never saw the final film. I took photos of my work, but that's it. I stopped doing sfx work after that experience too, which was quite sad as it was great fun. If I pick it back up in the future I will endevour to work on better/more professional sets, haha. But I just thought I could chip in about the 'not watching something you helped make' thing because it sucked as an experience. :)
That's really interesting, I can barely draw stick figures, so I'm always so blown away by people who can create things like that. I mean, the sheer amount of talent it must take to not only do what you do, but to be actually be successful at it, is awe inspiring. I hope one day you're able to move on from that shitty experience, and return to something I'm sure you loved!?!? *If you don't mind me asking, what movie was it that you worked on? I'd be interested in checking it out.
My mom did sfx at a local, pretty well known haunt, as well as on some music videos and stuff and eventually the workplace environment within the haunt became so toxic she just stopped. It sucks that it seems to be so common on smaller/mid-size projects.
I was just about to post this as well. I mean, obviously we can just read the comments ourselves, but it's really interesting hearing GG's thoughts on them. Hope he does this again some time in the near future.
Vibe I get from you is the one guy I would be comfortable asking a question about gym equipment to without feeling belittled or hit on for no reason. Like safe zone vibes?
Yeah. Vibe that if there _was_ a creepy guy at the gym, you could ask GG to walk with you to get a manager to kick the creep out. Not get into an altercation with the guy, GG doesn't strike me as the type to be confrontational (aside from trying to break it up by talking someone out of being a jerk maybe) but definitely someone to back you up and corroborate your story that the creep needs a ban (for however long) from the gym.
It's so weird to me that after that actress was so badly injured on set, they'd choose to create a poster/cover showing a woman with her face "cracked". I mean, I get that it's most likely representing a broken doll... It still just seems tasteless and insensitive as fu*k. Anyway, love your channels, GG. ✌
So often that’s the marketing department. There’s so many times movie posters haven’t matched the movie or mislead watchers. Same issue with trailers, same issue with book covers. Some authors have control, most of them don’t and it’s up to the publisher. I don’t know the case in this movie, but it’s possible there’s no connection there.
@@GabrielTheMagolorMain Just look at "Lawnmower Man," it was a short story by Stephen King that hollywood butchered SO fucking bad the he was able to successfully sue them for trying to put his name on their garbage ass movie and claim the original idea came from him despite it only sharing like two elements with the original story.
That shot of the typewriter not only sitting right side up after being yeeted out a second-story window but also facing the camera, adds to the "teenage horror story" theory. They're onto something 👍
The French comment is so accurate lol. As a baby I had my grandparents and great aunts and uncles that loved to speak to me in French cause a lot of my family visited from Canada. I obviously didn’t remember any of this but when I decided to learn French in high school I picked up on it really fast. I don’t remember much of it and can’t speak it too well but if anyone says it to me I can vaguely put together what is being said.
In a nutshell: Lovecraft was a brilliant author. He was also wildly racist and anti-semitic. He wrote a poem advocating the view that black people were inferior to the point of not being really human. He had a black cat that he named a racial slur. He praised Hitler. There's a lot of controversy regarding how to separate his legacy as an artist from his exceedingly bigoted views.
Whilst you're right about him being very racist even by the standards of the time (though he had mellowed to a "socially normal" level of racism by his death) there are two small points of order. 1) His parents named the cat, not him. 2) His praise for Hitler was in a letter in 1933. At the time, international support for Hitler wasn't that uncommon, with a lot of other European politicians kinda being taken in by his undeniable force of personality. Also, remember; Lovecraft died in 37. People didn't start realising what a monster Hitler was until about '38, so...saying "oh, he liked Hitler!" is kind of misleading because in '33, nobody knew what a lunatic he really was. xD
@@ninjabreadman1993r With regards to your second point, it must be known, that America's society was just proud to be blatantly racist and antisemitic, Hitler even claimed to have taken inspiration for his treatment of Jewish people from America's Jim Crowe laws. Hitler had written Mein Kampf at the time and attempted the Beer Hall Putsch, so like, it was open, he just wasn't invading white European nations at the time, so nobody actually cared what he thought or even if he did anything, WWII didn't start until he invaded Poland and the genocide of Jewish people was already well past the halfway point in the steps of genocide. So, people did know what he was, they knew what he thought, they just didn't care because he didn't want to hurt white christians. Like what do you think he was known for internationally at the time? Certainly not his mediocre paintings! He was famous for his political rise to power and propaganda against Jewish people comparing them to trolls and goblins and spreading blood libel bs. So, in conclusion, the letters liking Hitler are about as damming as condemning Washington for being a slave owner or Lincoln saying that black people were not fully human, it isn't damming for the time period, but it is damming the time period and should still be looked down upon today because even though it was a societal norm there are always people who disagree, for the examples I provided, the British army emancipated slaves who fought for them during the revolution and John Brown not only fought for emancipation of slaves but viewed them as equal human beings.
Just a while ago I read I little bit about Lovecraft and his views and they all started extreme and then they all mellowed out. I think if he didn't die so young he was gonna change even much more for the better because I feel like he was probably learning from his surroundings and then he started finding out that he was mostly wrong.
Very much seconding the recommendation for Stoker. Written by Wentworth Miller under a pseudonym (yes, the guy from Prison Break), interesting little mindfuck which feels like Lolita meets We Have Always Lived In The Castle meets Strangers on a Train ... sort of? Damn, I gotta rewatch that movie ...
Was a little worried for this video but, you were incredibly reasonable and understanding to the comments, doing your best to understand where they were coming from and so on. Great video, and really appreciate the chill attitude.
Summary of HP lovecraft from ur resident book nerd and also so u don’t have to go thru his Wikipedia : he wrote a bunch of books abt the unfathomable because he was literally scared of EVERYTHING (honestly? Deserved) which also included people in general I.E anyone who wasn’t white and a man or was anywhere near poor! (Cue insane amnts of racism, classism, and sexism which shows in some of his writing, especially the one he wrote about air conditioning being evil 😭) Edit: forgot classism!
I read the ending of Color out of Space, where he suggested that Poles were magic... And honestly - as a Polish woman myself - idk how he found us out, I thought we were hiding our magical ways pretty well.
@@hoodedman6579 He was very socially isolated and simultaneously smothered as a kid, raised by a shittastic family, and ended up looking at his grandfather's obsession with gothic literature, all the old books in the house he grew up in, old travelogues from the middle ages, etc. as so much better than real life that he eventually romanticised and found comfort in an imaginary "the past was better" narrative that didn't reflect the real past or reality at all. This was, again, because he was isolated and taught only the version of history he had access to, i.e. told from the perspective of white colonisers. Once he finally did get out in the real world, it didn't treat him very well, probably because he not only had an insanely old-fashioned outlook, but was also kind of a nervous wreck, lacking a lot of important survival skills, and completely out of touch with modern society, so he doubled down into that fantasy version of "the past was better" that made him feel more safe, righteous, and enlightened than he ever was. Like most human beings, though, his outlook was in flux, evolving and even improving in some small ways as he grew older and a bit less stuck in his delusions. He was never a shining bastion of correctness, though, obviously, and who's to say if he would have become a better person or a worse person if he'd lived a little longer. It's definitely worth looking into the actual history of him, as opposed to just reading comments and memes and forming your opinion off that alone. HP Lovecraft comes across to me as less of a despicable monster and more as a cautionary tale of what social isolation, untreated mental health issues, limited information, fear of the unfamiliar, and good old-fashioned childhood trauma can turn a person into if left unchecked.
5:00 Having had my arm completely severed at the elbow with nothing more than a T-shirt to wrap around it to try and stop the bleeding, I can assure you that it's longer than 20 seconds. Don't bet your life on it though, definitely pretend you can bleed out that quickly. Better safe than sorry. Luckily I didn't get knocked out, or I probably would have bled out in about 2 or 3 minutes.
I actually really love the idea that it's all a story that she writes, especially cause the dream sequences where she's an adult could signal a break from one daydream (envisioning the story) to another daydream (being a famous author because of this story). I mean, what amateur writer hasn't daydreamed about being on a talk show in the future talking about their work or something while they feel all hyped over a new project? It's also a nice theory because the events of the movie are really outlandish, and it has a lot of circular writing that feels like a story as it is being written.
Any chance you can do more videos like this? Like reading comments from other horror movies you've reviewed. Because I'd love to see your reaction to the one I left on The Deep House.
So I know they have quality content to work with but can we please appreciate the awesome job GG's editor does? Always something in there to make me laugh.
I love the idea of recording your live watch, and then choosing the best parts of it to show us. The addition of it in that video was great. (Tho, I would watch GG do just about anything, so I'm definitely not opposed to a full commentary track) 👍
If you're gonna make more videos on disturbing films, I'd definitely check out either Lake Mungo, Noroi, The Poughkeepsie Tapes or The Bay. All three are kinda found footage or mockumentary style, and I think for the most part they're all good at being fucked up and keeping that sense of dread going for the entire film, all except for the bay which while still good, to me, it started pacing itself weirdly near the end and that threw me off. Out of all four Lake Mungo really fucked me up for awhile though, has to be one of my favorite horror films.
I'd love to see this dude's reaction to Come And See, that would be the polar opposite of most of these vids but twice as disturbing as the movies he covers are supposed to be.
No traditional or 'extreme' horror film has ever messed me up like Come and See... Had me depressed for days after watching it. One hell of a film though, a must watch for film fans.... The most horrifying and surreal film I've ever seen. But Mista GG would find a way to make it funny I know it 😂
I understand not necessarily wanting to watch the finished product having worked on it. I work with videogames, and I've not played any of the finished products. These productions take years, and during those years a lot of things happen. The product may carry a lot of emotional package with it, and sometimes you're just "not ready" to watch/play it yet. It doesn't necessarily mean that something sinister was going on in the process, even though in this commentators husbands case it was probably the case. :D
When you were reading the "Chinese Homie's" screen name my phone stopped to buffer right after you read the first name. I thought you were pausing, unable to pronounce the last name, for like 25 seconds.
Yo if you do more disturbing documentaries sometime, check out Cropsey. There's an old Staten Island legend of a dude named Cropsey, a former mental patient who lives on the grounds of the closed and long abandoned Willowbrook State School and kidnaps children. The documentary explores the man who inspired that legend, a former EMPLOYEE, not patient, of Willowbrook who is a convicted kidnapper and suspected serial killer. Very interesting to see the true crime inspiration for an urban legend
See this is the thing. People are afraid of asylums for the wrong reasons. It's not the patients that are scary, it's that's people get confined and abused in them and people know we can't do shit because we're crazy so people like that love working in mental health, even now we've moved out of the asylum era.
When it comes to unedited live reaction to the movie i feel like that would be a good addition to the patreon Its extra content that exists and I feel like directy supporters would love tro see it without clouding the organization of the yt channel See it like a bonus to contributors
Lovecraft was more noted for his racist views than anything else, but it is worth noting (being clear, not that it absolves anything at all and if you hate him for it that's more than fair) that he was extremely reclusive and once he started to go out and touch grass more towards the end of his life, these views were reportedly softened. Not that it was ever going to be a super great attitude towards women and minorities coming from him, he died in 1936. I hate to throw the whole "product of his time" shit out there, but it's not an untrue thing to say about HP Lovecraft at the end of the day at least. There's nothing wrong with liking his fiction or acknowledging his contribution to the genre of cosmic horror as an author. He was a very talented writer with shit political opinions.
I really enjoyed this format, would love to see you do something like this again. Interesting seeing your take on people's comments....great way to engage more with your fans, and thus build a stronger connection with them. But, you know, I'll watch anything you put out, soooooo.............
3:55 Yo, GG, guess what Lovecraft named his cat! Also, love the Django: Unchained poster! Particular venacular used in the movie may or may not be related 👀
If people want to go with after the title card it a story. It could be that the main girl or whoever has already experienced everything in the book and could explain why they say "I like to write stories" it could also explain the writing a book within a book to cope with the trauma.
There’s lots of theories on this movie that they never got out, that she’s disassociating again, which makes more sense to me than that they did get out. Appreciate your videos! 👍
All you need to know about Lovecraft was his favorite word, which he used in the names of at least one eldritch horror and his cat. That will more or less give you all you need to know about the kind of person he was.
@@gummywormee41 Well there's, assuming i can spell it correctly, Shub Nigguroth, which obviously is just a bit too similar to the slur for coincidence.
Lovecraft is super interesting. He comes from a time when things like short stories were marketed and consumed in a way like comic books before comic books. They were never meant to be these timeless classics on the level of Tolkein, theyre pulpy and sensational and they're supposed to be scary, think something like goosebumps, but edgy. Yet now hes seen as the god father of cosmic horror because he struck gold with a few key concepts and a powerful writing style.
Basically all you need to know about Lovecraft is the movies, games, books, ect. inspired by his writing are better than his writing. I don't think its the whole "its easier to add too than to start" thing, I think it's because HP Lovecraft just was not as good of a writer as the people inspired by his works.
I watched another movie with the main actor from Stoker earlier today! I also did watch Stoker a few years ago and I wasn't that impressed (although, yeah, it's been a while, so my opinions might be different at this point). I'd also like to recommend the movie The Other Lamb (it should be on netflix... Or at least it is in Poland). I really loved it, which makes the fact that it has a 75% vs 38% score on rotten tomatoes really fascinating? It's about a girl (played by Raffey Cassidy, who was also the daughter in The Killing of a Sacred Deer) who grew up in a cult, breaking away from it. A bit artsy-shmartsy, but I feel like it works with its themes.
SHUT UP! she plays the main character in Motherland Fort Salem? I LOVED that scar on her face, it added mystery to the character and emphasis a beauty that is beyond physical. OMG love her. REALLY messed up now knowing how she got it
I swear to god if I see one more comment using the name of Lovecraft's cat as proof that the guy was a horrible racist, I'm gonna lose my fucking mind. Lovecraft got that cat in 1899... HE WAS 9 YEARS OLD. CLEARLY HE DIDN'T COME UP WITH THE NAME. His family got the cat and his father named it.
Ok how about this? The NEXT movie this studio/director produces...if it's about beating the crap out of a woman/girl for the main plot, we can probably conclude...the director has a fetish.
He's had a career spanning multiple decades and two have that in its contents. Maybe just maybe, people want to see a pattern that doesn't exist. I wonder if the creator of Rambo had a fetish for men getting their limbs blown off. Or does that kind of speculation only exist for content in which a certain group of people object to in fictional material?
"Stoker" is a valid suggestion, HOWEVER, i think it did not hit me as hard because i've watched around the same time as "We are what we are" and that one takes the cake in disturbing, so... maybe watch both?
I'm glad the actress who got scarred continues to work in the industry. But we don't know how many studios turned her down or how many roles she couldn't apply to audition for because having a scar on her face isn't what the producers wanted for their character😢
You really only need to know the name of HP Lovecraft's cat. People generally feel a number of different ways about his work. But that cat's name is illuminating.
to add to the window comment; she only saw the mom alive when she was in her dream scape so, i don't think she was actually saved, i think she was still stuck in the house being tortured.
It pisses me off that they used REAL GLASS that she was supposed to break. Like, on movie sets where it's planned for someone to break glass or interact with glass in any way, they make FAKE glass out of silicone or sugar(?).
Hp Lovecraft discourse is funny bc I'm surprised his racism wasn't brought up. That was more problematic than his misogyny. Surprise a white man in the 30s was extremely racist
Michael K.Williams, the legend, had a prominent facial scar. It actually got him some amazing roles on "The Wire", and "Boardwalk empire". It made him look tough as hell. However, females with facial injuries are not as hyped in casting calls.
I was confused for the longest time and thought you had been talking about Prisoners of the Ghostland. During your review, I kept wondering when Nicolas Cage was going to show up.
Well I didn't expect him to just say my name! Well youtube name. Thanks man you just made my week! Never expected to make it on one of my fav creators vid!
@Mista G Dubs you should watch Oldboy (2003), I saw the Devil and Raw. Have more recommendations but those are the top of my head as a guy studying film and t.v. Love the channel. Big Fan
Not sure if you will find this but look up four rooms I think it's a Tarantino film, has Bruce Willis at the end, super weird movie, funny as hell though
There’s a movie called Wish Upon that uses an adequately sized Chinese puzzle box. Of course, they use the box incorrectly, using it as a wishing stone, but they still have one!! That movie is awestruckingly horrible amd you should review it!!!
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Lovecraft is interesting as his works are far more important for what they did rather than the stories themselves. He is credited with pioneering cosmic horror, which is true to a large degree, but I enjoy stories influenced by him much more than his own works.
Came here to say this but THE Wendigoon beat me to it. Love both your videos!!!
wendigoon?????
yes they always flush it out more i love it!
I agree, but it is easier to build on to something compared to creating it from the ground up.
I'm just saying, he is still the guy that dug through the dirt and planted the seed.
How about his cats name??
You've been warned if you look it up.
The whole "I bet you couldn't make a better movie" argument is so idiotic to me. I don't have to be a master filmmaker to criticize both a film and the backstage shit that happened making it. In a way using that as some sort of cat counter to criticism shows that you have no actual answer to them. It's basically an acceptance that, yeah the criticism's probably right, but you probably couldn't do better.
Fr. Just because they couldn't "do better" doesn't stop something from still being criticized. It feels like a cop-out response, like "yeah it sucks but its still a movie."
I saw a comic once who was talking about criticizing bad parents even though he doesn't have kids, and his punchline applies to so many situations, like what you're talking about.
He said "I've never flown a helicopter but if I saw a helicopter crashed in a tree I'd know that's a shitty pilot."
Comic is Steve Hofstetter, dude is hilarious
@@indigozulu9 Pretty sure I've seen him say that joke and it's the perfect counterpoint do it. I've seen movies that were good and also didn't have backstage turmoil and injured actresses.
It's funny how it works only with art, too? If you get garbage food at a restaurant, people usually don't go "Well, you try making something better!". Because that would be pretty dumb.
@@indigozulu9 yes this is my exact response lol
As a fan of Motherland: Fort Salem I always thought the scar on the actress was part of her character so imagine my shock hearing that she got it because of a unprofessional freak
I used to do sfx makeup for films a few years ago, nearly all just local short films which was fun. I did the makeup for 1 feature length film, and the production was so absolutely horrible that I never saw the final film. I took photos of my work, but that's it. I stopped doing sfx work after that experience too, which was quite sad as it was great fun. If I pick it back up in the future I will endevour to work on better/more professional sets, haha. But I just thought I could chip in about the 'not watching something you helped make' thing because it sucked as an experience. :)
That's really interesting, I can barely draw stick figures, so I'm always so blown away by people who can create things like that. I mean, the sheer amount of talent it must take to not only do what you do, but to be actually be successful at it, is awe inspiring. I hope one day you're able to move on from that shitty experience, and return to something I'm sure you loved!?!?
*If you don't mind me asking, what movie was it that you worked on? I'd be interested in checking it out.
My mom did sfx at a local, pretty well known haunt, as well as on some music videos and stuff and eventually the workplace environment within the haunt became so toxic she just stopped. It sucks that it seems to be so common on smaller/mid-size projects.
@@mariannecontrino6297 Not talent, it's skill borne of a lot of practice. No one comes out the womb artistic, it takes determination and effort
The production disaster of this movie is way more interesting than the movie itself
I actually really like this kind of video, where you go back through comments on a previous video. It's cool to hear your opinions on our opinions ✌️
Does this qualify as opinion-ception?
What previous video? I looked back a year and no luck, no links in description either.
@@CutThroatCat This is his second channel. This video is a response to our opinions on his last video on his main channel
I was just about to post this as well. I mean, obviously we can just read the comments ourselves, but it's really interesting hearing GG's thoughts on them. Hope he does this again some time in the near future.
Vibe I get from you is the one guy I would be comfortable asking a question about gym equipment to without feeling belittled or hit on for no reason. Like safe zone vibes?
Yeah. Vibe that if there _was_ a creepy guy at the gym, you could ask GG to walk with you to get a manager to kick the creep out.
Not get into an altercation with the guy, GG doesn't strike me as the type to be confrontational (aside from trying to break it up by talking someone out of being a jerk maybe) but definitely someone to back you up and corroborate your story that the creep needs a ban (for however long) from the gym.
It's so weird to me that after that actress was so badly injured on set, they'd choose to create a poster/cover showing a woman with her face "cracked". I mean, I get that it's most likely representing a broken doll... It still just seems tasteless and insensitive as fu*k.
Anyway, love your channels, GG. ✌
Whoa, didn't pick up on that. That's actually pretty messed up.
Nah
So often that’s the marketing department. There’s so many times movie posters haven’t matched the movie or mislead watchers. Same issue with trailers, same issue with book covers. Some authors have control, most of them don’t and it’s up to the publisher. I don’t know the case in this movie, but it’s possible there’s no connection there.
@@GabrielTheMagolorMain Just look at "Lawnmower Man," it was a short story by Stephen King that hollywood butchered SO fucking bad the he was able to successfully sue them for trying to put his name on their garbage ass movie and claim the original idea came from him despite it only sharing like two elements with the original story.
That shot of the typewriter not only sitting right side up after being yeeted out a second-story window but also facing the camera, adds to the "teenage horror story" theory. They're onto something 👍
Oh. It does, nice catch.
Or just a lazy incompetent set more likely
The French comment is so accurate lol. As a baby I had my grandparents and great aunts and uncles that loved to speak to me in French cause a lot of my family visited from Canada. I obviously didn’t remember any of this but when I decided to learn French in high school I picked up on it really fast. I don’t remember much of it and can’t speak it too well but if anyone says it to me I can vaguely put together what is being said.
In a nutshell: Lovecraft was a brilliant author. He was also wildly racist and anti-semitic. He wrote a poem advocating the view that black people were inferior to the point of not being really human. He had a black cat that he named a racial slur. He praised Hitler. There's a lot of controversy regarding how to separate his legacy as an artist from his exceedingly bigoted views.
Whilst you're right about him being very racist even by the standards of the time (though he had mellowed to a "socially normal" level of racism by his death) there are two small points of order.
1) His parents named the cat, not him.
2) His praise for Hitler was in a letter in 1933. At the time, international support for Hitler wasn't that uncommon, with a lot of other European politicians kinda being taken in by his undeniable force of personality. Also, remember; Lovecraft died in 37. People didn't start realising what a monster Hitler was until about '38, so...saying "oh, he liked Hitler!" is kind of misleading because in '33, nobody knew what a lunatic he really was. xD
@@ninjabreadman1993r krystallnacht 1938
@@ninjabreadman1993r With regards to your second point, it must be known, that America's society was just proud to be blatantly racist and antisemitic, Hitler even claimed to have taken inspiration for his treatment of Jewish people from America's Jim Crowe laws. Hitler had written Mein Kampf at the time and attempted the Beer Hall Putsch, so like, it was open, he just wasn't invading white European nations at the time, so nobody actually cared what he thought or even if he did anything, WWII didn't start until he invaded Poland and the genocide of Jewish people was already well past the halfway point in the steps of genocide. So, people did know what he was, they knew what he thought, they just didn't care because he didn't want to hurt white christians. Like what do you think he was known for internationally at the time? Certainly not his mediocre paintings! He was famous for his political rise to power and propaganda against Jewish people comparing them to trolls and goblins and spreading blood libel bs.
So, in conclusion, the letters liking Hitler are about as damming as condemning Washington for being a slave owner or Lincoln saying that black people were not fully human, it isn't damming for the time period, but it is damming the time period and should still be looked down upon today because even though it was a societal norm there are always people who disagree, for the examples I provided, the British army emancipated slaves who fought for them during the revolution and John Brown not only fought for emancipation of slaves but viewed them as equal human beings.
My first thought was that he has probably heard about HP's cat because of its name...
Just a while ago I read I little bit about Lovecraft and his views and they all started extreme and then they all mellowed out. I think if he didn't die so young he was gonna change even much more for the better because I feel like he was probably learning from his surroundings and then he started finding out that he was mostly wrong.
Very much seconding the recommendation for Stoker. Written by Wentworth Miller under a pseudonym (yes, the guy from Prison Break), interesting little mindfuck which feels like Lolita meets We Have Always Lived In The Castle meets Strangers on a Train ... sort of? Damn, I gotta rewatch that movie ...
Whoa so cool! I want to check that movie out! Fun fact: the other brother in Prison Break was Dracula in Blade Trinity so it feels kinda full circle!
The editing really stood out in this video, idk if it was a new guy or if they just put more effort into this video, but it was really good
1:31 with all due respect, the way GG says 'its.. a puzzle' sounded so adorable. 😂
Was a little worried for this video but, you were incredibly reasonable and understanding to the comments, doing your best to understand where they were coming from and so on. Great video, and really appreciate the chill attitude.
Summary of HP lovecraft from ur resident book nerd and also so u don’t have to go thru his Wikipedia : he wrote a bunch of books abt the unfathomable because he was literally scared of EVERYTHING (honestly? Deserved) which also included people in general I.E anyone who wasn’t white and a man or was anywhere near poor! (Cue insane amnts of racism, classism, and sexism which shows in some of his writing, especially the one he wrote about air conditioning being evil 😭)
Edit: forgot classism!
Don't forget about classism. He didn't like poor white people either
@@curleyqreviews9793 I totally forgot! Lemme add it in
I read the ending of Color out of Space, where he suggested that Poles were magic... And honestly - as a Polish woman myself - idk how he found us out, I thought we were hiding our magical ways pretty well.
Why would air-conditioning being evil be racist, sexist, or classist? How did he pull that off?
@@hoodedman6579 He was very socially isolated and simultaneously smothered as a kid, raised by a shittastic family, and ended up looking at his grandfather's obsession with gothic literature, all the old books in the house he grew up in, old travelogues from the middle ages, etc. as so much better than real life that he eventually romanticised and found comfort in an imaginary "the past was better" narrative that didn't reflect the real past or reality at all. This was, again, because he was isolated and taught only the version of history he had access to, i.e. told from the perspective of white colonisers.
Once he finally did get out in the real world, it didn't treat him very well, probably because he not only had an insanely old-fashioned outlook, but was also kind of a nervous wreck, lacking a lot of important survival skills, and completely out of touch with modern society, so he doubled down into that fantasy version of "the past was better" that made him feel more safe, righteous, and enlightened than he ever was. Like most human beings, though, his outlook was in flux, evolving and even improving in some small ways as he grew older and a bit less stuck in his delusions. He was never a shining bastion of correctness, though, obviously, and who's to say if he would have become a better person or a worse person if he'd lived a little longer.
It's definitely worth looking into the actual history of him, as opposed to just reading comments and memes and forming your opinion off that alone. HP Lovecraft comes across to me as less of a despicable monster and more as a cautionary tale of what social isolation, untreated mental health issues, limited information, fear of the unfamiliar, and good old-fashioned childhood trauma can turn a person into if left unchecked.
5:00 Having had my arm completely severed at the elbow with nothing more than a T-shirt to wrap around it to try and stop the bleeding, I can assure you that it's longer than 20 seconds. Don't bet your life on it though, definitely pretend you can bleed out that quickly. Better safe than sorry. Luckily I didn't get knocked out, or I probably would have bled out in about 2 or 3 minutes.
I actually really love the idea that it's all a story that she writes, especially cause the dream sequences where she's an adult could signal a break from one daydream (envisioning the story) to another daydream (being a famous author because of this story). I mean, what amateur writer hasn't daydreamed about being on a talk show in the future talking about their work or something while they feel all hyped over a new project?
It's also a nice theory because the events of the movie are really outlandish, and it has a lot of circular writing that feels like a story as it is being written.
Any chance you can do more videos like this? Like reading comments from other horror movies you've reviewed. Because I'd love to see your reaction to the one I left on The Deep House.
So I know they have quality content to work with but can we please appreciate the awesome job GG's editor does? Always something in there to make me laugh.
Dude the editing on your videos are out of this world. I love it.
Taylor also does a great job in Motherland Fort Salem. Unfortunatly the show has been canceled, but they were able to wrap it all up.
I love the idea of recording your live watch, and then choosing the best parts of it to show us. The addition of it in that video was great. (Tho, I would watch GG do just about anything, so I'm definitely not opposed to a full commentary track) 👍
If you're gonna make more videos on disturbing films, I'd definitely check out either Lake Mungo, Noroi, The Poughkeepsie Tapes or The Bay. All three are kinda found footage or mockumentary style, and I think for the most part they're all good at being fucked up and keeping that sense of dread going for the entire film, all except for the bay which while still good, to me, it started pacing itself weirdly near the end and that threw me off. Out of all four Lake Mungo really fucked me up for awhile though, has to be one of my favorite horror films.
Lake mungo is just really sad honestly
@@naiknaik8812 same, I didn’t find it scary, just really sad and hopeless
Yeah, it was admittedly just really sad, but I think the realism in how hopeless it was was what got me initially.
You MistaGG are the best at integrating funny and creative sponsor bits into your videos. I never click past them.
I'd love to see this dude's reaction to Come And See, that would be the polar opposite of most of these vids but twice as disturbing as the movies he covers are supposed to be.
No traditional or 'extreme' horror film has ever messed me up like Come and See... Had me depressed for days after watching it. One hell of a film though, a must watch for film fans.... The most horrifying and surreal film I've ever seen.
But Mista GG would find a way to make it funny I know it 😂
I understand not necessarily wanting to watch the finished product having worked on it. I work with videogames, and I've not played any of the finished products. These productions take years, and during those years a lot of things happen. The product may carry a lot of emotional package with it, and sometimes you're just "not ready" to watch/play it yet. It doesn't necessarily mean that something sinister was going on in the process, even though in this commentators husbands case it was probably the case. :D
Pure evil is what motivates a man to throw that "Game Over, Yeeeaaah!" audio on that knockout clip while I'm eating soup.
GG how could you?
I could watch you talk about everything and anything for years and never be bored
Just came here directly from watching your original video about this awesome flick. Love the fact that you made a second video about this film!
When you were reading the "Chinese Homie's" screen name my phone stopped to buffer right after you read the first name. I thought you were pausing, unable to pronounce the last name, for like 25 seconds.
This was fun. I read through the comments too so it's fun to hear your direct response
"Still does not dismiss it!" About the actress's injuries. GG out here being a king 👑 as always.
Yo if you do more disturbing documentaries sometime, check out Cropsey.
There's an old Staten Island legend of a dude named Cropsey, a former mental patient who lives on the grounds of the closed and long abandoned Willowbrook State School and kidnaps children.
The documentary explores the man who inspired that legend, a former EMPLOYEE, not patient, of Willowbrook who is a convicted kidnapper and suspected serial killer. Very interesting to see the true crime inspiration for an urban legend
See this is the thing. People are afraid of asylums for the wrong reasons. It's not the patients that are scary, it's that's people get confined and abused in them and people know we can't do shit because we're crazy so people like that love working in mental health, even now we've moved out of the asylum era.
Love how this video is edited shout out to your editor!
father gg, thank you for blessing us with this banger of a video
When it comes to unedited live reaction to the movie i feel like that would be a good addition to the patreon
Its extra content that exists and I feel like directy supporters would love tro see it without clouding the organization of the yt channel
See it like a bonus to contributors
Lovecraft was more noted for his racist views than anything else, but it is worth noting (being clear, not that it absolves anything at all and if you hate him for it that's more than fair) that he was extremely reclusive and once he started to go out and touch grass more towards the end of his life, these views were reportedly softened.
Not that it was ever going to be a super great attitude towards women and minorities coming from him, he died in 1936. I hate to throw the whole "product of his time" shit out there, but it's not an untrue thing to say about HP Lovecraft at the end of the day at least. There's nothing wrong with liking his fiction or acknowledging his contribution to the genre of cosmic horror as an author. He was a very talented writer with shit political opinions.
I agree
I really enjoyed this format, would love to see you do something like this again. Interesting seeing your take on people's comments....great way to engage more with your fans, and thus build a stronger connection with them. But, you know, I'll watch anything you put out, soooooo.............
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Yo, GG, guess what Lovecraft named his cat! Also, love the Django: Unchained poster! Particular venacular used in the movie may or may not be related 👀
If people want to go with after the title card it a story. It could be that the main girl or whoever has already experienced everything in the book and could explain why they say "I like to write stories" it could also explain the writing a book within a book to cope with the trauma.
Echoing a few others, I too enjoy the commentary review of the review format. Nice job.
I never headbutt the like button so hard. Screens broken, but next time I'll remember it's not a touch screen and use my mouse.
There’s lots of theories on this movie that they never got out, that she’s disassociating again, which makes more sense to me than that they did get out.
Appreciate your videos! 👍
All you need to know about Lovecraft was his favorite word, which he used in the names of at least one eldritch horror and his cat. That will more or less give you all you need to know about the kind of person he was.
I heard of the cat thing, but he named an eldritch horrir a slur??
@@gummywormee41 Well there's, assuming i can spell it correctly, Shub Nigguroth, which obviously is just a bit too similar to the slur for coincidence.
Idk man I'm pretty sure his favorite words were eldritch or cyclopean.
Lovecraft is super interesting. He comes from a time when things like short stories were marketed and consumed in a way like comic books before comic books. They were never meant to be these timeless classics on the level of Tolkein, theyre pulpy and sensational and they're supposed to be scary, think something like goosebumps, but edgy. Yet now hes seen as the god father of cosmic horror because he struck gold with a few key concepts and a powerful writing style.
Speaking from my limited experience, working on a film does NOT mean you want to watch the movie afterwards.
Please do more of these follow up videos if you have the time to!
I love this!
Basically all you need to know about Lovecraft is the movies, games, books, ect. inspired by his writing are better than his writing. I don't think its the whole "its easier to add too than to start" thing, I think it's because HP Lovecraft just was not as good of a writer as the people inspired by his works.
I watched another movie with the main actor from Stoker earlier today! I also did watch Stoker a few years ago and I wasn't that impressed (although, yeah, it's been a while, so my opinions might be different at this point).
I'd also like to recommend the movie The Other Lamb (it should be on netflix... Or at least it is in Poland). I really loved it, which makes the fact that it has a 75% vs 38% score on rotten tomatoes really fascinating? It's about a girl (played by Raffey Cassidy, who was also the daughter in The Killing of a Sacred Deer) who grew up in a cult, breaking away from it. A bit artsy-shmartsy, but I feel like it works with its themes.
SHUT UP! she plays the main character in Motherland Fort Salem? I LOVED that scar on her face, it added mystery to the character and emphasis a beauty that is beyond physical. OMG love her. REALLY messed up now knowing how she got it
Loved this man!! I'd love for you to keep reading comments on new videos.
GG out here looking like Shang Tsung from UMK3
This movie would just work so much better as a novel
They should have gone with a Dybbuk box, also it looks like there was a Chinese puzzle box in a Nancy Drew game.
I swear to god if I see one more comment using the name of Lovecraft's cat as proof that the guy was a horrible racist, I'm gonna lose my fucking mind. Lovecraft got that cat in 1899... HE WAS 9 YEARS OLD. CLEARLY HE DIDN'T COME UP WITH THE NAME. His family got the cat and his father named it.
Ppl just wanna bitch about something
Bro, is that Django smoking Monsieur Candy's cigar? Fkin' Baller, my guy.
Ok how about this? The NEXT movie this studio/director produces...if it's about beating the crap out of a woman/girl for the main plot, we can probably conclude...the director has a fetish.
He's had a career spanning multiple decades and two have that in its contents. Maybe just maybe, people want to see a pattern that doesn't exist. I wonder if the creator of Rambo had a fetish for men getting their limbs blown off. Or does that kind of speculation only exist for content in which a certain group of people object to in fictional material?
when you look at the recommended and see another new Mista gg video as top recommended you know its gonna be a good night
"Stoker" is a valid suggestion, HOWEVER, i think it did not hit me as hard because i've watched around the same time as "We are what we are" and that one takes the cake in disturbing, so... maybe watch both?
Only important thing to know about H.P Lovecraft is the name of his cat.
Uhhh that pony tail Mista GG is looking luscious! love it.
“I was trying to watch a movie, not misogyny 2.0” 😂
I remember being broke and not being able to grab a GG shaker, I'm WAITING for another cup to release one of these days.
I like this format
Man I love these kinda videos wayyy too much!
Lovecraft is a prime example of seperating the work from the artist.
I'm glad the actress who got scarred continues to work in the industry. But we don't know how many studios turned her down or how many roles she couldn't apply to audition for because having a scar on her face isn't what the producers wanted for their character😢
DeskDrumGum being stupid made this video a bit more spicier lol
You really only need to know the name of HP Lovecraft's cat.
People generally feel a number of different ways about his work. But that cat's name is illuminating.
Motherland is SUCH A FUN SHOW.
Which A.I. did you use to generate that Russian Hacking Ottoman? I need it in my life.
Totally forgot I was subscribed to your second channel - This video was a delightful surprise!
Top tier Ace edit
to add to the window comment; she only saw the mom alive when she was in her dream scape so, i don't think she was actually saved, i think she was still stuck in the house being tortured.
It pisses me off that they used REAL GLASS that she was supposed to break. Like, on movie sets where it's planned for someone to break glass or interact with glass in any way, they make FAKE glass out of silicone or sugar(?).
Hp Lovecraft discourse is funny bc I'm surprised his racism wasn't brought up. That was more problematic than his misogyny. Surprise a white man in the 30s was extremely racist
That's the thing though; Lovecraft was remarkably racist for his time, let alone now. He was very very afraid of anything that was not like him.
You literally just said being racist if worse than being misogynistic..... Wtf is wrong with you?
Clicked it as soon as it popped up for GG and I still got beat-
Nice
I would LOVE to see you review the French horror film High Tension. Its good but flawed and your analysis would be just 🤌🏼
Speaking of Lovecraft there's a movie called Glorious with JK Simmons... Yeah that's something... Would love to see your thoughts on it
Awww he is so sweet to answer questions 😂
Omg that’s her?! That’s so cool I love motherland, she plays one of my favorite characters
Michael K.Williams, the legend, had a prominent facial scar. It actually got him some amazing roles on "The Wire", and "Boardwalk empire". It made him look tough as hell. However, females with facial injuries are not as hyped in casting calls.
I wish I could mainline GG content into my eyes at all moments of my life
honestly having followups on reviews if theres content for it would be an awesome occasional video, this was interesting.
I was confused for the longest time and thought you had been talking about Prisoners of the Ghostland. During your review, I kept wondering when Nicolas Cage was going to show up.
i honestly don’t know why wendigoon is even popular. it really shows you the state of education in our country.
Hey! I love when you do these types of vids
Well I didn't expect him to just say my name! Well youtube name. Thanks man you just made my week! Never expected to make it on one of my fav creators vid!
I like this video format.
"arguments in every RUclips comment."
It's actually in every comment on every social media platform 😂.
It's not just the mustache, but also the Steven Segal hair.
Yup, I said it....😂🤣
14:23 i think the "mistake gg" was from the fiverr diss raps
AAAYYYY rockin my mista gg cup right now :D
Ah, I appreciate you reading my comment! Don’t worry about my user name pronunciation. Apparently I can never pick a pronounceable username!
Can't wait for the next horror movie review!!
@Mista G Dubs you should watch Oldboy (2003), I saw the Devil and Raw. Have more recommendations but those are the top of my head as a guy studying film and t.v. Love the channel. Big Fan
Not sure if you will find this but look up four rooms I think it's a Tarantino film, has Bruce Willis at the end, super weird movie, funny as hell though
I'm gonna predict the next scary movie review is "Incantation". Just a hunch.
Also I popped off when I saw the shaker cup because I was there
He's already reviewed it my guy LMAOOOO
U killed it, im 15
Frank Sinatra is DEAD
There’s a movie called Wish Upon that uses an adequately sized Chinese puzzle box. Of course, they use the box incorrectly, using it as a wishing stone, but they still have one!! That movie is awestruckingly horrible amd you should review it!!!