{"id":2042,"date":"2013-05-06T01:03:47","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T05:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/?p=2042"},"modified":"2014-12-04T02:41:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T07:41:42","slug":"advice-column-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/advice-column-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice Column #8 (5\/6\/13)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nDramas that will scare me. Not horror movies. Tense things about actual people and stuff that is just horrifying, but not in a BOO! way. Hard to explain. – Bill E.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Editor\u2019s Note (12\/4\/14): We no longer answer movie questions through our advice column. We answer them in the mailbag segment of our podcast<\/a>. Send them to Cody@SmugFilm.com<\/a> and we will answer on the show!<\/em>
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\nJohn D’Amico:\u00a0<\/strong>Peter Watkins’ you-are-there masterpieces The War Game<\/a> and Punishment Park<\/a> are among the most intense and affecting films ever made\u2014the former was banned by the BBC for decades and the latter presented a Guantanamo-esque vision of cultural disruption so bleak it’s still an almost physically painful experience. Along those lines, Robert Kramer’s The Edge<\/a> and Ice<\/a> are two great forgotten political dramas nail-bitingly tense in their precision and banality.<\/p>\n

There’s also the great Repulsion<\/a> and Seance on a Wet Afternoon<\/a>, two films that skirt awful close to horror movie territory but in the end resolve to beautiful and harrowing domestic dramas.<\/p>\n

And, of course: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf<\/a>. Just drop everything and watch Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, a stone-cold masterpiece as intense and trouble as any film ever made, ever. Drop everything. Watch it, now. Watch it. What is wrong with you? Go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"jason\"
\nDramas that will scare me. Not horror movies. Tense things about actual people and stuff that is just horrifying, but not in a BOO! way. Hard to explain. – Bill E.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Editor\u2019s Note (12\/4\/14): We no longer answer movie questions through our advice column. We answer them in the mailbag segment of our podcast<\/a>. Send them to Cody@SmugFilm.com<\/a> and we will answer on the show!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[631,25],"tags":[635,1478,633,1477,499,632,1484,1482,1489,1487,1486,1485,1476,1488,104,185,1481,1480,1479,1483,736],"class_list":["post-2042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice","category-allposts","tag-advice-column","tag-drama-movies","tag-film-advice","tag-horror-movies","tag-movie-advice","tag-movie-advice-column","tag-peter-watkin","tag-punishment-park","tag-repulsion","tag-robert-kramer","tag-robert-kramer-ice","tag-robert-kramer-the-edge","tag-scary-movies","tag-seance-on-a-wet-afternoon","tag-smug-film-2","tag-smugfilm","tag-suspense","tag-tense-drama","tag-tense-dramas","tag-the-war-game","tag-whos-afraid-of-virginia-woolf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2042"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5766,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042\/revisions\/5766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}