Picnic at Hanging Rock

An user earlier posted this movie thanking whoever had recommended it.

I wanted to recommend him some more movies.

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Everything I'm going to recommend you should definitely see.

First off, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, pic related.

Kind of a dream/nightmare eerie fantasy / vampire folk tale with gauzy shots of wispy Slav girls and dream archetypes.

I'm not that user but I wanna know more movies similar to Picnic At Hanging Rock

Walkabout (1971)

Girl and her younger brother lost in the Outback, get help with an Aborigine. Kind of a gauzy back-to-nature story. Lots of powerful feels.

Cool, I'm posting everything I can think of to recommend in this thread. That's kind of my favorite type of movie, so I know a lot.

Some are related to the Outback or Dreamtime, others to ethereal girls, other to weird/eerie fiction, others I'm recommending for their gauzy / dreamy cinematography, some for the dynamic of yearning or to do with elusive youth.

The Last Wave (1977)

Directed by Peter Weir who also did Picnic at Hanging Rock. A mystery drama relating again to Aborigine beliefs, magic, Dreamtime, etc.

Thanks for doing this. I find these type of movies to be 'comfy'.

The Wicker Man (1973)

Weird, British occult / folk horror. Won't spoil it but definitely a must-see.

Sure, user! Same. Feel right at home in this kind of atmosphere.

Check out the ethereal band Cocteau Twins if you like this vibe.

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Black Moon (1975)

Kind of a deconstructed Alice story.

meant to post pic with that

Lost in New York (1989)

Pretentious vanity film by atmospheric vampire-schlock director Jean Rollin (not a vampire film though). Kind of unintelligible but it has great imagery.

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Through the Looking Glass (1976)

Somewhat hesitant to recommend this because it's seriously dark and corrupt, but it's really interesting aesthetically.

An actual atmospheric hardcore porn movie from the 70s, centered around incest, demons, and surreal nightmare netherworld imagery. Probably has one of the darkest atmospheres I've seen in a film.

lurking

Watcher in the Woods (1980)

An actual Disney movie, back from the time (between the 70s and 80s) when they were making some really weird and sometimes dark / scary movies.

Kind of an atmospheric, New Age-y gothic horror film.

Ki or Breathing (1980)

Japanese. Not sure how to really describe this one in any simple way to make it make sense here. More of an art-art film than narrative art film.

On youtube:

youtube.com/watch?v=gqVk0l9JM34

Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)

Very accurately dreamlike Surrealist short film by Maya Deren.

Go ahead and watch it on youtube:

youtube.com/watch?v=ihQurg4xGcI

The director Maya Deren is the woman who stars in the film. Her other films are good too, especially At Land and her documentary on Voodoo.

OP here. Anyways, I have some things to do so I'll just quickly drop some other names for the moment and maybe recommend some more later.

Russian Ark
Badlands
Le orme (Footprints on the Moon)
The Virgin Suicides
3 Women
Don't Look Now
The Hunger
Melancholia
The Tree of Life
Stalker
Oriental Elegy

Enjoy.

thanks u are a total bruh

Thanks for recs.

My pleasure guys. I'm happy to share really cool stuff like this, especially to the people here and there who would really appreciate this type of thing (atmospheric, elusive, romantic, etc)

all this movies play with the things outside of the frame i love it feels.rar desu

that's some top shelf loli

Yeah, good point. Not in that kind of art world literal extending or looking out of the frame thing, but more in a kind of occultic, Romantic approach to like a Weird tale where the story is based in allusion and the elusive, to some elsewhere our outside, which it conjures the sensation of so acutely that the feeling extends to real life (and the stories sometimes have a sense of real / unreal that bleeds into our world)

Beast thread on Sup Forums in ages.

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What do you think happen to the girls?

OP here. Maybe I'll occasionally do these aesthetic-theme-based recommendation threads with some rare stuff sometimes, just to throw a little more inspiration towards the people looking for it.

All I can say to those who appreciate any of this is to seek more elsewhere. Art is a portal that opens up new worlds to you, which can open you up to experiences out there you'd never known about before. There are places I've been and relationships I've had that were in part branching from journeys started from new aesthetic worlds opened to me, sometimes in film, music, art, etc.

I come to Sup Forums because I find the meme humor (at its best) funny and kind of creative but generally you're not going to find weird new stuff beyond that here. Venture out.

This. Especially if you are watching The Leftovers as well.

Some kind of space/time weirdness happened and they stepped into some higher / hyper dimension / Dreamtime, is the sense I get. I definitely don't think there is supposed to be some mundane explanation (it's not that type of story, it's more about irrational energies and ontological weirdness).

OP here.

Few other movies crossed my mind.

The Vanishing (less atmospheric but it does have that weird/maddening sense of mystery and pertains to a missing woman)
The Neon Demon - the way it treats her beauty as an almost magical force that you can viscerally sense, and see others respond to is very related.
Death in Venice - very related as far as ideas about yearning and wonderment etc but through a pretty fucked up story (middle age guy waifus a slav adolescent boy and spends the movie yearning for him). Great cinematography though.
Days of Heaven
Nostalghia (Tarkovsky)


And some short stories:

DEFINITELY read:

The White People by Arthur Machen
The Great God Pan - Machen
The Willows by Algernon Blackwood

^extremely related to all this.

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I don't recognize this. Is it Baraka or something?

It's a pic from some India festival

It's not from a movie I'm afraid.
I just felt that the image belonged in this thread.

related

This scene is so good. The song is perfect too.

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Or actually, the song was played on piano in that scene

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how tho

Cool. I agree!

Yeah, that's a whole different tone / aesthetic. More Noir.

Makes me think more of this song:

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The Return (Russia, 2003)

Atmosphere + cinematography + dread

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8/10 IMDB

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OP here, hadn't heard of that!

Lol at how "KINO" pops up right at the beginning.

Please do, i saw your recommendation for the OP and am yet to check it or but appreciate throwing myself out of my comfort zone for movies with that creepy unsettling vibe

I love the sense of dread from watching The Wicker Man, would love to see more of that type of movie

Interesting how that was painted in 1942, in that actual era. It's such a classic, nostalgic aesthetic by now that it looks like sentimental nostalgia for that era, not from it.

is this from that movie?
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nice meme btw

Yeah, hope you'll catch those threads when they happen. I'm trying to spend less time here but I make art at home a lot and it's always tempting to just hop over to the computer.

But since you're asking about Wicker Man now, I'll go ahead and give you some recs here.

Obviously some of the recommendations in this thread are relevant, like Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, in particular.

But also check out:

Witchfinder General
Dark Secret of Harvest Home (obscure folk horror)
A Field in England (beardy, shroomy Olde England vibes)
Kill List
Kakashi (Japanese folk horror)
Black Sunday (witch /occult)
The Source (documentary about hippie cult)
Antichrist (woodsy terror, nature-is-evil)
Berberian Sound Studio
Rosemary's Baby (paranoiac occult dread)
The Witch (related, whatever one's opinion on it)
Children of the Stones (70s weird / New Age-y English kids' mystery-horror show)
The Village (flawed, but good North England woodsy folk horror atmosphere)
Noroi (The Curse) (Japanese found footage occult / Shinto horror mystery)
The Song Remains the Same (Led Zeppelin's concert movie has some parts where the members do their own little vanity scenes, Jimmy Page's gets all Hermetic Tarot beardo esotericist, and Plant romps around misty British hillsides)
The Stone Tape (another weird occult-y 70s English show)
Penda's Fen (yet another weird occult-y 70s English tv show)

Yep, the footage in that video is from an actual obscure French movie, and it's as weird as it looks. Meant to mention that youtube music video, it kind of made that imagery its own.

>The Village (flawed, but good North England woodsy folk horror atmosphere)

*New England, meant to write

OP again, I think if I do future threads on aesthetic themes, I'll post archive links to all the previous threads like this one so anyone interested can catch up on those too.

That would be amazing. Great job man

lol Picnic at Hanging Rock sucks shit

inb4 (you)

Sure thing dude. Hope you enjoy all these.

And there's (waaaay) more where that came from.

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Siskel & Ebert called this film a "lost classic." Richard Linklater is on YouTube introducing it at his film festival as a lost classic. It's in my Top 5 of the 1980s. Enjoy the atmospheric opening credits. Full film is on YouTube but it's cropped.

Added to list of things to see soon, thanks.

Looks promising.

Rec me a movie from Asia that has action. Must be pre-2000.

OP here. That's not an area I've explored much yet. Anyone else?

If you want like vaguely orientalist, kind of vaporwave-y 80s action set in Asia, Bloodsport rules, btw:

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^tell me that's not kino

black moon has underage titty tho

>directed by louis malle
Of course.

Okay just because I recommended Bloodsport partly based on these 80s montage scenes, I have to recommend another 80s movie based on its super dope montage scene. Not asia-related though.

Cobra:

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So amazing. Kino movie btw. Ryan Goslings Driver character was partly inspired by Sylvester in this movie.

bummp

any coen brother movies
since you know they probably wont resolve
or will resolve it in a anticlimactic way because they aren't that good, you can watch any of their movies without getting your heartrate up ever

middle girl is 7/7 waifu

Maybe Barton Fink but most Coen stuff doesn't fit the thread.

I would recommend Occult movies like Rosemarys Baby, Possession, The Ninth Gate (one of my favorite movies very surreal atmosphere with a great feeling of mystery), Eyes Wide Shut (that fucking Ligeti piano piece).

Kino thread mate

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I finally saw The Ninth Gate recently. I kind of liked it too.

Rosemary's Baby and Possession are two of my favorite movies, easily. Eyes Wide Shut too.

Thanks. Think I will do more like these.


Maybe some film charts can result from this expanding canon over time. Like I think the thread theme (launched from Picnic at Hanging Rock) was "gauzy" / ethereal movies.

And then there was that later list of folky / beardy horror / weird vibe movies related to Wicker Man.

I have dozens and dozens of canons of different aesthetics I've mapped out. Will probably do one based on slimy, monstrous/technoid practical effects 80s 'fun' horror, that whole over-the-top slimy aesthetic. And one on "dream horror". And another on corporate vibes. And another on New Age movies. And 90s "edgy" aesthetics. Etc. etc. etc.

>I would recommend Occult movies like Rosemarys Baby,

yeah shit this movie was fucking siiiiiiiiick

>Stalker
Yeah, I just watched this for the first time a couple of weeks ago. Definitely gripping, scary and mysterious. Still haven't quite figured it out. Maybe I never will.

One of the best.

One of my favorite things about Rosemary's Baby is how subtly the director leaves signs and clues for the viewer to subconsciously pick up on and gradually come to feel a sense of wrongness along with Rosemary. Like just a weird little glance between one of her neighbors and someone else, or a neighbor showing a little bit too much interest in her visiting friend. It's so effective, especially since the neighbors are eccentric but not stereotypically villainous in an obvious way.

Check out Solyaris as well if you haven't yet. Just as powerful.

Is that the one where the Aborigine kills himself after he gets rejected?

it would be a better experience if I didn't know what the deal was before I watched it, but still a really good movie

The Passion of Darkly Noon

Yeah, definitely. I really highly advise against reading conversations on the really good movies like that before you see them, or worse, making a "what should I expect?" thread like some people here do. Why would they want to ruin a suspense film like this?

Btw, if you want a chance to experience top-tier horror-suspense-paranoia, watch Don't Look Now, but whatever you do don't spoil it (avoid looking up any images or anything in advance). One of the few movies that has managed to actually viscerally scare me in adulthood.

SPOILERS for anyone who hasn't seen Walkabout:

Yep. It's pretty sad actually. Not tha tI was wanting them to hook up but the film somehow gets across just a sense of loneliness and impossibility that really hits you. But yeah, it has prime Jenny Agutter very decidedly NOT getting blacked, she is freaked out by his weird native dance thing he does.

There's another one I've never heard of. Interesting.

theres a 70s uk film called ritual that fits the folk horror vibe.

Watched it yesterday on youtube pretty sure they where just bantering the fat one

Thank you for this thread. Picnic is my favourite movie, I'm glad I could hear more about movies like it.

user, tell me where to look.