patrickwithtraffic

patrickwithtraffic t1_jeatu67 wrote

I'm seeing it's being produced by Fangoria Studios, who I doubt have massive resources for big budget demands that could come from other works from Junji Ito. Still, I'm precarious because Ito's work has yet to translate well to TV and film. His horror comes from the massive disgusting detail oozing from every horrific page turn and it's damn hard to replicate that outside of manga.

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patrickwithtraffic t1_irqhgol wrote

You might cry bullshit over this, but I genuinely think IFC is showing But I’m A Cheerleader actually began my path where I wouldn’t be homophobic. A mid-2000s middle school white boy being shown that gay people are people and not a punchline kinda blew my mind at the time. Not to mention, IFC really did have insane films that really did shape my tastes for a while, from Boogie Nights to Gregg Araki’s 90s surreal stuff and their original programming with a hipster twist on comedy. I don’t know where it really went downhill, but it pains me to see what’s it currently is.

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