If you follow the instructions in Footnote 78 (page 72) you actually do read Pelafina's letters prior to the checkmark. That's how I read it the first time and I feel that it made a lot of JT's story and allusions make more sense.
@alexsanderleote17617 күн бұрын
Why the heck did u stopped to do videos? Your channel is awesome
@AgentBacalhau8 күн бұрын
About the Pelafina letters and the checkmark, in page 72, footnote 78, after Johnny recounts one of his hallucinations that is very reminescent of his traumatic event caused by his mother, one of the editor's footnotes invites the reader to read the appendixes 2-D and 2-E, his father's obituary, and the letters. That means that some readers will have already read through the letters once they reach page 97 and will be aware of the probable meaning of the checkmark already once it appears, while others, who decided to leave the appendixes for last or to, as is written in the footnote, "interpret Mr. Truant on his or her own", will not. Another interesting way in which the experience is different for different readers.
@cebruthius12 күн бұрын
I've always had a soft spot for this movie after I recognized the pavement in the training village.
@defpixel12 күн бұрын
Hammer horror vibes
@juliemayhwang446927 күн бұрын
thank you!
@Nyxisa28 күн бұрын
I finished the book today after wanting to read it for over a year. The part about Daisy wanting to play "always", and the subsequent "many don't realize that Always is a mispronunciation for hallways. It also echoes it" gave me chills. It has been forever since a book was able to do that.
@frankwilkie3354Ай бұрын
Green eyes is a Witch, when Corso enters the room where Balkin is doing a class and he was talking about witches, while making sure camera is on her
@FoolishPrince4 күн бұрын
She was the Devil. It's alluded to in the book, "the club Dumas". In the film, corso was the only one who didn't worship the devil, and the devil doesn't seek those that already belong to him/her for they could never understand the bravery it takes to rebel against God or to take on the quest: corso, on the other hand took on the quest of the ninth gate and is worthy of enlightenment. "Lucifer"/"Helel ben Shachar" is "Venus"/"Ishtar" of Babylonian and Mesopotamian lore. The hottest planet in the solar system, one of two planets that rotate the opposite direction: the brightest illuminated body in the sky, other than the moon and sun. Ishtar/Inanna symbolized by the crescent moon (symbol of a womb giving birth as well): "HILAL Bin Shahar" means crescent moon, and the moon reflects/"bears" the light of the sun. Read Inannas descent into the underworld, and her alias/twin/sister "Erishkegal" empress, goddess and ruler of the underworld and guardian of the last gate of the underworld. The girl, we can conclude IS the ninth gate, the holy grail all men thirst after: that all men will fall for just like Adam. She is the Devil, and is the reason any man/son"star" of God would rebel. I AM 🃏
@willspann9894Ай бұрын
I remember renting this movie sometime after it was released and not liking it at all. I might revisit it in the future, but I really don't remember it being good at all.
@MrCharlesWidmoreАй бұрын
‘Timecrimes’ is a great film that’s hardly mentioned 👍
@MilkyWayGrumpАй бұрын
Want to add something quickly: Mark not wanting an adaptation isnt ENTIRELY true; he was helping with a teleplay of a limited series adaptation, but it fell through due to creative differences
@dbcooper1012Ай бұрын
I visited the Filming Location in the Netherlands. Very impressive!
@bennyblanco14Ай бұрын
Terrible review 😪
@dessertstorm7476Ай бұрын
The ending wasn't good, but fade to black, roll credits would also have been bad. So many indy horror films just stop rather than end, it's got to the point you basically expect them to end suddenly now.
@rubewaddell1704Ай бұрын
I have had three copies. I stupidly borrowed out two and never got them back.
@radomirkorac-uu3nkАй бұрын
Great movie!👍
@spaniardspqr2 ай бұрын
Loved the film! What do you mean skip the book???
@johnturtle66492 ай бұрын
I made a movie so good other people are still to this day critiquing it. in other words, where the fuck were all of you people in 2004?
@spearofhope22 ай бұрын
Just wanna say, love the editing choices, mate! The number 23 and sinister both feel appropriate for visuals, but dang, I'm always surprised and delighted to see Stay!
@jamescappio74342 ай бұрын
Like the card you flashed says, the best serious Lovecraft adaptation. Still true, by a wide margin.
@Noluckcookie2 ай бұрын
You did a great work!
@cjsayers33462 ай бұрын
If I had to describe house of leaves, I'd call it a horror mockumentary in book form.
@host_theghost5072 ай бұрын
You're right about the movie's old-fashioned vibe. Even its flaws feel vintage. It's actually what I love about it: we're getting old-school storytelling from a master craftsman. I will watch this movie any number of times just to hear Frank Langella's voice on the telephone, and my god Lena Olin. The actress who played the Baroness is amazing, especially when you know she had zero time to prepare for the role. One note about the ending: I always saw Corso's shooting of Balken as a mercy killing. He was burning to death, which is no way to die. Of course, if the Devil is real, where Balken's going next may not be much of an improvement!
@Liamnesque2 ай бұрын
The John Titor movies is way better! Too bad it wasn’t made in this timeline.
@BubblegumCrash3322 ай бұрын
House of Leaves is the only other piece of artwork that gave me the same feeling I had watching the Shinning. I don't know what that feeling is but I know when I feel it
@julius-stark2 ай бұрын
I just rewatched this film for the first time in close to 20 years. I had forgotten large swaths of what happens in the the movie aside from the ending, so it was almost like watching it for the first time. I'm shocked at how good it is despite being a fairly simple and at times odd story/sequence of events. The scene where Corso accidently punches the Girl causing her lip to bleed, and then later she smears his face with her blood and he just kinda lets it sit there on his forehead felt like to me that she was making him her familiar. Or maybe not. A lot of it is open to interpretation. I love the idea that the Girl is Lucifer since we rarely get an interpretation of Satan that's female that's not also comical. It's almost like she chose him to be the one to open the 9th gate.
@ArnoldTohtFan2 ай бұрын
_Se7en_ always struck me as gratuitous and pretentious. Brad Pitt's acting during the climax is simply atrocious. _Fallen_ is Oscar-worthy in comparison, although there are some things I don't understand about it. Stanton's sudden antagonism towards Hobbes after he digs up the Milano case is just bizarre. You get the impression that there's some kind of history between them, but no exposition is given about it. It isn't clear why Stanton is so keen for the case to stay buried. If it is such a stain on his reputation, wouldn't he be enthusiastic about a chance to clear Milano's name? I also thought it was odd that only one body, that of Milano, was discovered at the cabin in 1965. Shouldn't there have been another body, that of whomever Azazel had possessed during the showdown? Milano had lured Azazel out there, trying to get him stranded in the wilderness without a host. In what guise did Azazel meet him? Whoever it was, they would have had to die also, presumably by Milano's hand. I guess his host could have been an animal, simply observing Milano in silence until he finally shot himself in despair. Maybe he didn't even show up at all. Finally, the narrator is revealed to have been Azazel all along, but there are some things said by the narrator which, while they could at a stretch be interpreted as the perspective of Hobbes or Azazel, don't really sound right coming from Azazel. “I think the most basic question for humans is just to figure out what the hell is going on. Why was Greta Milano so scared, and why did she ask about God?” and “Nobody likes to get the shit kicked out of them. Nobody likes to get hit from every angle. But evil just keeps on coming, you know what I mean? You've seen it before, but now it's in your face, laughing at you.” This doesn't sound like Azazel, unless it's him trying to think like a human.
@iiiwwwooo41682 ай бұрын
Music in the film is amazing
@chuckmartin70063 ай бұрын
The girl is actually the Harlot that rides the 7-headed Beast, in the Book of Revelation. That is what how the 9th Illustration depicted her. And she "rode" Corso at the end, making him the beast, or at least a type of the beast.
@hermanhale92583 ай бұрын
Yes, although Corso appeared to enter a castle, he actually went underground and became a "Beast". He can talk to you from under your bed.
@Chicago_Podcast_Authority3 ай бұрын
I only had a problem with Hobbs killing Jonesy. That was completely unnecessary as he was going to die and there would’ve been no way for him to scramble for another body
@juannaym84883 ай бұрын
The moment when Navidson pulled up the book I WAS READING and it was described that it had the exact page count that the actual, real book has... that really did something to me man. Never has a 4th wall break tripped me up this bad
@dnewh17322 ай бұрын
That part hit me like a truck at 4am. Navidson is a fictional character in a fictional documentary told by a blind man, transcribed by Johnny who is himself a fictional character in our own reality. I think what made this hit so hard is the fact that it breaks the fourth wall within the wall, wall-ception
@chrisharwell23553 ай бұрын
The cat part ruined it
@AskAdam283 ай бұрын
Omg this book took me six months to get through. It's a monstrosity that is a masterpiece!
@JazenValencia3 ай бұрын
I must admit It is one of my favorite films, and I have a soft spot for Corso. I agree on the comparison with the Book vs. Movie, but Arturo Pérez-Reverte's other books are quite good. "The Fencing Master" is quite engaging and well written.
@ethribin41883 ай бұрын
Hello? SCP foundation? I think we found the current location of scp 184!! Please send a mobile task force to retreave it. And dont amnestize me. Please...
@matthewjaniss41033 ай бұрын
No the ending wasn't crap, to each their own but this movie is way better than modern horror crap we get nowadays. Yall are too used to cut and paste Hollywood endings.
@benmitchinson98313 ай бұрын
Needed something like this for closure after reading, the footage you choose is so perfect. Leaves a lot still to the imagination which I appreciate! Also love the PT reference :) satisfying to see the impact of house of leaves in so many things I didn't know had been inspired by it.
@greglane3343 ай бұрын
I can concur, this book isn't ideal as an ebook. Been looking for a physical copy for years but living in a third world country has made that a bit difficult
@elmycah3 ай бұрын
I have a theory that green eyes actually follows the book, maybe because that book holds the crucial ninth (albeit forged) engraving, where she herself is the final piece to the puzzle and ultimate waypointer, so she is probably in charge of anointing the one worthy of entering pretty failsafe system, wouldn't you say? :)
@puny541712 күн бұрын
That’s sounds about right 😊
@SonnyPaints3 ай бұрын
I enjoyed it. Not really bad at all.
@heroicjourney25083 ай бұрын
15 seconds in is perfect 😂😂😂😂😂
@Jeffrey3141593 ай бұрын
Here we have a movie that stars the future wife beater and rapist Johnny Depp
@allenbell13113 ай бұрын
WTF are you talking about murdering Balkan?! Corso was being merciful.
@ryanjones41503 ай бұрын
I don't know why, but I like time travel movies that hurt my head. Primer is the best example, but Tenet confuses me also. I have always loved 12 Monkeys, BTTF of course. Been on a kick lately for time travel flicks, Predestination is the best one I came across, but Time Crimes is all right, and Safety Not Guaranteed is pretty good.