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Just watched Bag of Lies.

Some good material in the film that could transplant rather easily into a RL campaign.
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SkiBird wrote: Thu Aug 01, 2024 8:18 am Just watched Bag of Lies.

Some good material in the film that could transplant rather easily into a RL campaign.
Sounds quite... Ravenloft.
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It's probably cheating of me to say this, but Nosferatu by Robert Eggers, in my opinion, definitely should make the list of films already presented here. While some might argue that it's not as good as Robert Eggers's other works, I still had an excellent time seeing it and felt myself like I was in Barovia. This probably isn't the place for a more detailed review but I highly recommend it as something that has the Ravenloft feel!
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Finally saw Eggers' take on Nosferatu and definitely agree - was a terrific film. Bill Skarsgard is unrecognizable under the heavy makeup and costume (as well as that raspy voice) but gives an awesomely creepy performance. The movie both brings back the vampire to its roots as a monstrous undead and decidedly unsexy and irredeemably evil bringer of death and plague, and keeps the sexual aspect introduced by Byron, Le Fanu, and Stoker, and pushes them both to 11 for a modern R-rated audience while keeping gothic sensibilities, and the result is commendably dreadful. Bonus points for the always great Willem Dafoe's excentric Van Helsing-alike.

My fave Eggers movie is still The Lighthouse, though.
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High Priest Mikhal wrote: Fri May 24, 2024 1:19 am This should go without saying, but Wes Craven's Prince of Darkness.
...That's actually John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness. The second part of his (otherwise unrelated) "Apocalypse trilogy" along with The Thing (my favorite movie ever) and In the Mouth of Madness (which I saw three times in a movie theater during its very short-lived release by lying about my age).
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