The movie frame game 20:20

CLWheeljack · 2012-07-12T10:54:26.000Z

I would say Pan’s Labyrinth, but that looks more horror-y than that.

JPR · 2012-07-12T11:04:05.000Z

Not Pan’s Labyrinth.

Slumberland · 2012-07-12T11:07:53.000Z

The Strangers?

tomchick · 2012-07-12T11:20:20.000Z

JPR:

I’m going with 2.35:1?

Hmm, so it is. I still think you’ve imperceptibly squished it down to trick us.

-Tom

serling · 2012-07-12T13:05:48.000Z

Ju-On?

JPR · 2012-07-12T14:09:15.000Z

Not The Strangers, not Ju-on.

LionelThompson · 2012-07-12T16:03:40.000Z

The People Under the Stairs, since it’s a person, who is under some stairs?

JPR · 2012-07-12T17:31:29.000Z

Not The People Under the Stairs.

JPR · 2012-07-12T18:36:47.000Z

40:40

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Delta · 2012-07-13T09:31:35.000Z

Is it Rare Exports?

Rory_Stewart · 2012-07-13T10:31:30.000Z

Uh it’s clearly the original Japanese version of Home Alone.

JPR · 2012-07-13T11:22:12.000Z

Not Rare Exports. And it’s not Japanese. The 60:60 might help…

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Slumberland · 2012-07-13T12:32:30.000Z

Black Christmas

JPR · 2012-07-13T12:54:43.000Z

Yep, that’s it. Written and directed by Glenn Morgan, one of the Final Destination guys and an alum of X-Files and Millenium. I think it’s an underrated movie as long as you go in knowing what you’re in for. The big set piece fight at the end, in particular is Final-Destination-y in a good way.

Here’s the final screen (which does not speak well to the quality of the movie):

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Omniscia · 2012-07-13T12:55:32.000Z

Aww, I was going to guess that.

Slumberland · 2012-07-13T12:57:11.000Z

I Trachtenberg’d it.

Hold on to your butts and hang out by your nearest nursing home, oldie incoming…

Slumberland · 2012-07-13T16:21:59.000Z

20:20

JPR · 2012-07-13T16:35:41.000Z

That looks kind of like Jack Lemmon, so I’m going to say The Apartment. (In case that was an embarrassing guess, I’ll just point out that I don’t watch movies for the elderly)

Slumberland · 2012-07-13T21:08:57.000Z

Interesting guess, but The Apartment is 2.35:1.

fire · 2012-07-13T23:30:23.000Z

I think that’s Rosalind Russell, and it’s not Clark Gable or Peter Lorre… so, gosh, Fast and Loose?